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	United States
		United States of America, popularly referred to as the United States or as America, a federal republic on the continent of North America, consisting of 48 contiguous states and the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii.
		The conterminous 48 states are bounded on the north by Canada, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
		The United States in the mid-1990s produced 57 percent of its petroleum needs, but new domestic discoveries tend to be small and costly to recover, especially in the geologically complex mountain regions and the deep waters of the continental shelf.
	www.members.tripod.com /sdapts/WAF/Countries/unitedstates.htm (7386 words)

	Highest-income places in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest-income places in the United States are usually considered to be in the Northeast; forty-one of the 100 highest-income counties by per capita income are located in the Northeast (including Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia in the Northeast designation) and forty-six by median household income.
		This is a list of the 100 richest places in the United States, regardless of population or number of households.
		These rankings are typically not used when describing the richest places, because locations with very small populations may have high per capita incomes due only to a few high-income individuals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highest_income_places_in_the_United_States (530 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During the Cold War, the United States was a major player in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and was considered one of Two superpowers along with the Soviet Union; with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the nation emerged as the world's leading economic and military power.
		The United States is a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the Most prestigious and advanced in the world.
		Some Sports that originated or evolved in the United States, particularly baseball, basketball and American football, have achieved a worldwide audience; the Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League, is one of the highest watched broadcasts in the world, with viewership far outnumbering the total American population.
	united-states.iqnaut.net (5101 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, the structure of the United States was profoundly changed in 1788 when the States replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution; often, sources Use the date each of the original 13 States adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States).
		The government of the United States may be accurately categorized as a republic or as a liberal democracy.
		Because the United States is such a relatively young nation, most of the development of US cities has taken place after the invention of the automobile.
	united-states.mindbit.com (5026 words)

	Hoover Institution - Education Next - The Human Capital Century
		In the United States as a whole, the enrollment rate for youths in all secondary schools—public high schools, private secular and religious high schools, and the preparatory departments of colleges and universities—soared from 1910 to 1940 (see Figure 2).
		Because the southern states had lower levels of education attainment for much of the 20th century and because the high-school movement diffused slowly throughout the South, the national data in Figure 2 give a somewhat misleading impression of the speed at which the high-school movement spread throughout the rest of the country.
		In contrast to the United States, the templates of Europe were characterized by quasi-public or private funding and provision; by the high standards of an unforgiving system; by the unity of church and state; and by a “boys come first” attitude.
	www.hoover.org /publications/ednext/3355201.html (3362 words)

	THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA
		Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
		The United States currently enjoys a positive relationship with the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and Poland, among several others, in that these nations are participating as active military allies with, or logistical supporters of, the United States in all theaters.
		The United States is often under criticism from Western governments and NGOs concerning lengthy detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as some restrictions on freedoms of speech and the press, as being violations of their definition of human rights.
	www.speedace.info /united_states_of_america_usa.htm (8119 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in West Virginia - Science and Stewardship
		The Status of Biodiversity in the United States.
		Indeed, this is one of the richest places on Earth for the diversity of freshwater fish, freshwater mussels, land snails, deciduous broadleaf trees, lungless salamanders, cave invertebrates, freshwater fish, freshwater mussels, crayfish, and other types of plants and animals.
		Aquatic biological diversity is also significant in West Virginia, especially in the western portions of the state.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/westvirginia/science (335 words)

	United States Interesting Facts - Places - Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The USA is a huge country to explore, with 50 states to choose from, flanked by two oceans and covering an incredibly varied terrain.
		During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions.
		This is usually an insert, stamp or sticker which is placed in your passport and the duration of its validity varies from place to place.
	www.travel-island.com /interesting.places/united_states.html (1956 words)

	US places 12th in aiding world's poor, report says - The Boston Globe
		WASHINGTON -- The United States has significantly increased its foreign aid to poor countries but ranks 12th among the 21 richest nations in its overall performance in helping the world's poor, according to a widely watched annual report released yesterday.
		The United States spent 15 cents per person each day in government aid to poor nations and six cents per person daily in private giving, the report found.
		The United States has pledged $950 million for tsunami relief, out of an estimated $12 billion promised by all Western donors.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/31/us_places_12th_in_aiding_worlds_poor_report_says (443 words)

	cars - United States
		The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
		The United States proper has three land borders, two with Canada and one with Mexico, and two territorial water boundaries with Russia and The Bahamas.
		Nevertheless, the United States has at times been criticized for alleged violations of human rights, including racial discrimination in trials and sentences, police abuses, excessive and unwarranted incarceration, and the imposition of the death penalty ².
	www.carluvers.com /cars/US (4037 words)

	United States of America - Wikitravel
		The U.S. is one of the largest countries in the world in terms of area (at roughly 9.6 million sq km, it's about half the size of Russia and around the same size as China) and population (though, even with 300 million residents, it's far behind China and India).
		The continental United States (the 48 states other than Alaska and Hawaii) are bound by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, with much of the country's population living on these two coasts.
		This crisis exacerbated the disaffection among the working classes in the United States and around the world and led to a rise in socialist thinking that was to have a large effect on the rest of the century.
	wikitravel.org /en/United_States (14941 words)

	What is United States? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge - United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a
		The United States was founded under a tradition of government based on the consent of the governed under the
		Major components of the European segment of the United States population are descended from immigrants from Germany (15.2 percent), Ireland (10.8 percent),
	info.abaara.com /pac/United_States (3278 words)

	the theory and experience of globalization
		Shifts in economic activity in say, Japan or the United States, are felt in countries all over the globe.
		Yet while the influence of nation states may have shrunk as part of the process of globalization it has not disappeared.
		The development of markets, the expansion of economic activity, and the extent to which growing prosperity is experienced by populations as a whole has been, and remains, deeply influenced by public policies around, for example, education, land reform and the legal framework for activity.
	www.infed.org /biblio/globalization.htm (5355 words)

	USA Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		The US was fashioned from an incredibly disparate population who, with little in common apart from a desire to choose their own paths to wealth or heaven, rallied around the ennobling ideals of the Declaration of Independence to forge the richest, most inventive and most powerful country on earth.
		When To Go The US is most popular with travellers during the summer, but this is when American families pack everything up and head out to visit Aunt Tilly.
		The requirements, in place for the forseeable future, will mean some delay and disruption at airports and travellers should plan accordingly.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/north-america/usa (357 words)

	BBC News \| EDUCATION \| Blunkett feels tuition fees pressure
		But he said that after the next General Election there would be a political "debate" on the issue - alongside a new "Dearing" review, re-visiting the whole question of university funding.
		His comments, made after he gave a speech at Greenwich University, London, on higher education in the 21st century, were seized on by university leaders, following reports claiming support in Downing Street for the idea of differential fees.
		He urged universities to find different ways to compete for research students or funding with the richest places in the United States.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/643991.stm (462 words)

	AHI: United States
		He said yesterday: "We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists.
		When a ghetto becomes a closed place, without people moving to and fro to work or shops or recreation, without police who are welcomed as defenders of the public peace, it might as well be no longer part of the outside world.
		But still this is a hell of a place to live; you can't keep any kind of order here.
	www.affordablehousinginstitute.org /blogs/us/index.html (4364 words)

	Maps - Satellite, Street, Theme Maps - National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Get the best photos, maps, flags, facts and more on places you need to know and places you'll want to go.
		Explore the richest, rarest, and most endangered areas on Earth through profiles, photos, multimedia, and more.
		Join the thousands of U.S. students that compete every year in our premiere geography competition.
	plasma.nationalgeographic.com /mapmachine/index.html (183 words)

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