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  • Halbjahresbericht 2005 (englisch)
    ... EUR 395 million). Demand was particularly high for the education loan offered by KfW, which it extends without regard for the income and wealth of students and their parents ...
    http://www.kfw.de/DE_Home/Service/Download_Center/Finanzpublikationen/PDF_Dokumente_Berichte_etc./4_Halbjahresberichte/Halbjahresbericht_2005_e.pdf
  • Speech by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, at the National Day Rally 2003, 17 August 2003, 8.15 pm
    ... the ICU. His doctors and nurses were watching him. So he stepped right into the ICU without wavering. His doctors and nurses followed. That is the mark of a leader ...
    http://www.gov.sg/nd/ND03.htm
  • glbtq >> Special Features >> Claude Summers Reflects on
    ... living in the city where you will settle. He will be near you for many years without your meeting. But it would be no good if you did meet now. At present, he is only four years ... the knowledge that they could trust each other absolutely. The thirty year difference in the partners' ages scandalized many of Isherwood's friends, including pioneering psychologist Evelyn Hooker, who requested that the couple ...
    http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/chrisanddon.html
  • Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child | Video on TED.com
    ... got a broadband connection in a hut that doesn't have electricity. The parents love it, because when they open up the laptops, it's the brightest light source in ... plan." And that's why scale counts. And that's why we will not launch this without five to 10 million units in the first run. And the idea ... and that's why I said seven to 10 million there. And we're doing it ...
    http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_on_one_laptop_per_child.html
  • KinderheiratAfghanistan2004_e.p.PDF
    Study on Child marriage in Afghanistan S. Bahgam W. Mukhatari May 2004 2 CONTENTS Executive Summary 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 2.1 Information and data already available 2.2 Research goals and methods 2.3 Problems with data reliability 3. Results and discussion 3.1 Examples of child marriage from medica mondiale’s practice 3.2 Data from hospitals 3.2.1 Rabia Balkhi Hospital 3.2.2 Malalai Hospital 3.2.3 Karte-se Hospital 3.2.4 Khair Khana Hospital Discussion 3.3 Data from schools 3. ...
    http://www.medicamondiale.org/fileadmin/content/07_Infothek/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Child_marriage_medica_mondiale_study_2004_e.pdf
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    ... to draft recommendations, but also in their recommendations, the right of the parents is regarded as higher than the best interest of the child (Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde 3(2008 ... discretion of the medical professionals, nor of the society, nor of the parents. Medical interventions into the autonomy of the sex always also constitute vio- lence, leading to ...
    http://www.frauenrat.de/fileadmin/Website_Archiv/files/090127_CEDAW_QuestionsAnswers.pdf
  • When Sally Met Harry
    ... a man. He was one of those people who “just knew” – helped, of course, by parents, relatives and friends who knew this as well. Some had the “proof” of course ...
    http://www.pfc.org.uk/files/When_Sally_met_Harry.pdf
  • Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything | Video on TED.com
    ... do the best I can to describe the beauty of particle physics without equations. It turns out there's a lot we can learn from coral. Coral is a very ... these matter particles come in left- and right-handed varieties, and have anti-particle partners that carry opposite charges. These familiar particles also have less familiar second and third generations, which have the ...
    http://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_on_his_theory_of_everything.html
  • EDGE: A BIOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN NATURE
    ... is research on parenting. Hundreds of studies have measured correlations between the practices of parents and the way their children turn out. For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on. Most ... ...
    http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker_blank/pinker_blank_print.html
  • HON - News : For OCD, Not Helping Might Be Best
    ... their fears by facing them and using alternate methods to deal with them. The parents, meanwhile, were instructed in how they should respond when their child's OCD behaviors arose. After the ... has also been reported anecdotally by adults in relationships. "We see it with adults' spouses and partners, too," he said in the news release. "In trying to be helpful to ... or concerns . Do not use this information to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease ...
    http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/628233.html
  • Edge: THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE: A Talk with John Gottman
    ... parental hostility and depression that the baby grows up in. That affective climate between parents is the real cradle that holds the baby. And for the majority ... of their babies, to be better fathers, and through that, to be better partners, as well. The major commitment is really to the baby. It's a spectacular ...
    http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/gottman05/gottman05_index.html
  • THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 ? Page 10
    THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 — Page 10 Home About Edge Features Edge Editions Press The Reality Club Third Culture Digerati Edge Search < previous | Index | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | next > 2007 "WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT?" CONTRIBUTORS Gregory Cochran Paul Davies Helen Fisher Xeni Jardin Gary Marcus T homas Metzinger Paul Saffo Scott Sampson Dan Sperber Sherry Turkle Back to Index Page GREGORY COCHRAN Consultant, Adaptive Optics; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah The Sorcerer's ...
    http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_10.html
  • Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' - washingtonpost.com
    ... to this discussion Emily Yoffe Slate Advice Columnist Monday, June 29, 2009; 1:00 PM Need help getting along with partners, relatives, coworkers... and people in general? Ask Prudence! Emily Yoffe -- a.k.a. Slate's advice columnist Dear ... have to do after she wears it. How do I politely and firmly turn down her request without hurting her feelings? Emily Yoffe: Even if you wore this dress to celebrate your friends nuptials, she does ... a prevalent southern family; however, I retained my own last name. He is very supportive, and his ...
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/23/DI2009062302144.html
  • THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2001
    ... fulfilling, and their potential lovers more impressed. Their identities grow one-dimensionally, shooting straight up towards career success without branching out into the variegated skill sets which could soak up the sunlight of respect ... answers that the Victorians sought: what genetic propensities, fulfilling skills, and moral values do our sexual partners have? We might not have bothered to ask, but our children will find out sooner or later. GEOFFREY ... question like this for someone to be reminded just how much emptier our existence would be ...
    http://www.edge.org/documents/questions/q2001.8.html
  • Can science reinvent the economy? - New Scientist
    ... companies to pay back their loans. At this point, if the banks keep loaning money into existence without any corresponding increase in the embodied fossil-fuel energy available to the economy, hyperinflation ... banks realize energy production is peaking, it's "game over," because everybody in the banking world knows: without excess energy the whole system collapses." "B. What's going to happen to my ...
    http://www.newscientist.com/special/can-science-reinvent-economy
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on doing business in Africa | Video on TED.com
    ... a realization that no one can do it but us. We have to do it. We can invite partners who can support us, but we have to start. We have to reform our economies, change ...
    http://www.ted.com/talks/ngozi_okonjo_iweala_on_doing_business_in_africa.html
  • Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button
    ... the letter Q. Beginning Thursday we will remove all “Q” keys, allowing you to type only words without the letter “Q”. Employees who want to use the letter “Q” can now substitute ... the back button into consideration is Facebook’s photo pages. You can flip through and comment on photos without refreshing the page, but the back button still works as expected - reversing through the sequence ...
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/nielsen-deletes-reply-to-all-button/
  • Mysticism 2
    ... originally a landmark in an otherwise monotonous wilderness from which travellers can find orientation and without which they would be likely to go astray - which in the experience of the ... creation of the heavens and the earth: Our Lord, You did not create all this without a meaning. Praise be to You! ... (Surah 3:190-191). And among His signs ... bodily functions and realize that we breathe, that our heart beats and that our digestion works
    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/8206/hkrausen/myst2e.htm
  • True Selves - Book Review | Press For Change
    ... describing with plenty of appreciation for the feelings and sensitivities of parents, partners, colleagues and friends trying to cope with something new and bewildering in their ...
    http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/16
  • Gender Mainstreaming Practical Guide
    ... responsibilities. It is therefore essential to negotiate clearly goals with them and to empower all partners by sharing the tasks fairly. Co-operation with the other actors is helped by: Gb7 drafting ... the low income groups with regard to : – age, – type of household (one person household, single parents, etc); – level of education, school drop-outs, illiteracy ; – employment status (part-time, short-term contracts), long term unemployment ...
    http://www.genderkompetenz.info/w/files/gkompzpdf/gmprac_guide_en.pdf
  • GDID - Project: WWW-ICT
    ... responsible for the part on women’s biographies. To categorise the various experiences without loosing the richness of the material we identified career patterns according to the ... job content of ICT professions. Vocational advisors, counsellors, head hunters and human resource managers, but also parents, teachers and students are likely to be the main agents of these ... Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology was one of seven European project ...
    http://www.media.tuwien.ac.at/gdid/wwwict-us.html
  • Rosemarie L
    Rosemarie L. Buikema Theft and flight in the Arts Inaugural lecture 10 November 2006 Translation: Christien Franken Editing: Mark Speer 1 ‘Too heavy to fly, surprised by the rain. We fished them from the mud and blew the sticky edges of their wings apart until we saw a spot to hold them by. Cautiously, cautiously we divided the wings, like wet tissue paper, so they would not cling to each other’. Marlene van Niekerk, ...
    http://www.let.uu.nl/~Rosemarie.Buikema/personal/R.Buikema-inaugurallecture-english.pdf
  • THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 ? P6
    ... serious theoretical physicists and cosmologists. Let me strip the idea down to its essentials. Without all the philosophical baggage, what it says is straightforward: The universe is vastly bigger than the ...
    http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_6.html
  • WELCOME TO RPI INCUBATION
    ... and cost effectively. In just a few minutes you can Create your own 3D virtual shop, without needing any technical knowledge. Test your new concepts with your customers from anywhere in the world. Study ... products are designed to be easily accessible, configurable, and appropriate for everyday use, enabling parents to take control of their child's communication challenges. Visit www.AutisTech.com for more ... simulation, parallel computing and computer architecture. The company provides turnkey products and superior performance ...
    http://www.rpi.edu/dept/incubator/homepage/members.html
  • PFC Newsletter Number Nine | Press For Change
    ... won the Lottery! |  Insurance |  New SOC? |  Parliamentary forum |  “Sex-swop councillors” ! |  Passports |  Photos of children |  Transsexual birth parents |  Local and Media Networks |  Transagender for the Next Millenium |  Membership |  E-mail lists |  Northern Gendys ... South West trains, whose partner was refused the rights to free travel etc. that other unmarried partners enjoy, was announced on 1st October - in her favour. The case was a follow ...
    http://www.pfc.org.uk/node/606
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