This includes Finland (world's highest scores), Norway, Poland, the Netherlands, Australia and Japan " (Gray). From Chicago to Houston to Washington DC districts around the country are beginning to experiment with longer school days as a way to raise academic achievement. ... Chicago, who was known in the education community as having one of the shortest days at 5 hours 45 minutes, have now extended their days to 7½ hours a day. ... More than 80% of Chicago Public school students qualify for free meals based on low family income. ... She likes to use her body to express herself and s...

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Pag.8 The 80's .. ... Those were some pretty confused days for an artist to be in. ... The 80's Unfortunately , the 80's didn't start as well as they were expected. With the tragic death of former Beatle John Lennon and a few other riots all around the world , the world back then was not really a very happy place. ... Around the same time, England was on the verge of something that will soon be revolutionizing the world of music: Music Television or MTV. ...

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Egyptian doctors were the most famous in the ancient world. ... Sometimes a statue of the god would be paraded around the temple walls carried in a closed shrine on a golden boat. ... In Egypt there are more than 80 pyramids, which experts believe, are the tombs built by pharaohs, as the final resting place for their body. ... By counting the number of days until the Dog Star again rose at dawn, they worked out a calendar of 365 days. They learned they needed to correct the calendar every so often by adding extra days, as we add a day in leap years. ...

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By the outbreak of the First World War, Japan had an army of over 300,000 men, the fourth largest navy in the world, and a booming economy that could produce many of the armaments it needed. ... The First World War changed the political situation in East Asia. ... This was a great loss for the Japanese because America supplied 80% of Japan's oil. ... Six days later, Japanese naval and land forces began assaults on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. ... Within a few days, Germany and Italy had also now declared war on the United States. ...

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Mark Twain History The Indian civilization has been around for over 5,000 years. ... It was founded in around 500 b.c. ... Industries India is mainly and agricultural industry over 80% of its land is used for farming. ... But sadly when beautiful spring is over the hot humid days kill. ... Over 80% of its" population are Hindu's. ...

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Symptoms of Ebola The Ebola virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever, begins it's effect in 4 to 10 days after the infection. ... Most of the patients develop severe hemorrhagic manifestations, usually between days 5 and 7. ... It occurs between days 7 and 16, usually from shock with or without severe blood loss. ... It resulted 80 percent death rate. ... Ebola-Sudan, the second strain identified, was discovered near the place around the same time of the Ebola Zaire. ...

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After several days, the symptoms may progress to severe breathing problems and shock. ... Symptoms can appear within 7 days of coming in contact with the bacterium for all three types of anthrax. For inhalation anthrax, symptoms can appear within a week or can take up to 42 days to appear. ... Even if untreated, 80 percent of people who become infected with cutaneous anthrax do not die. ... Extensive testing on the utility of anthrax as a BW agent was carried out by the British in World War II, the United States in the early Cold War period, and by the Soviet Union into the 1980s. ...

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"# The children that lived during this time of industrial awakening were no longer treated as the future of the world but viewed as cheap labor. ... Diseases of all types spread quickly in the 70-80 degree F, poorly ventilated and unsanitary buildings.# When sick, children lost all wages and were quickly replaced. There were no "sick days" back then and the factories took no responsibility to provide health care.# Loss of hearing and sight were not a main concern of factory owners either. Working around loud machines by candle light for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week reeked havoc on still ...

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After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. ... The first of the seven chapters is about Hitler and the people around him, otherwise known as his court. ... He describes the change in Hitler in his last days and the deterioration in his health. ... According to him, there were bloodstains on the wall as well as "a strong smell smell of almonds" which suggest cyanide poisoning (Petrova and Watson 80). ... Instead, it mentions a Russian spy who was a messenger in the Bunker and the importance of this man's ...

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They would take turns playing in the violent contests on a field anywhere from one to fifteen miles long in games that could last days at a time. ... While on a missionary trip around the Native American tribes of the northeast, he encountered forty eight different tribes playing lacrosse. ... The major surge in popularity of NCAA lacrosse started in the late 80's, when attendance to games first began to rise. ... The Gaits helped Syracuse win three consecutive national championships and dominate the NCAA in the late 80's. ... After all, Roller Derby and "Wild World of Wheels" truck ...

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In this speech, he describes a dream he had about a world where all the animals live free and are not controlled by their masters, humans. Everyone is moved by his speech, but unfortunately they find their leader, Old Major, dead three days after. ... Squealer is also known to twist words around. ... For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a "readjustment," never as a "reduction"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous."(Orwell, 80). ...

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The Gospel according to Mark, written roughly around 65-70 CE, is as Bart D. ... Even after predicting his death and resurrection several times, the disciples never truly understand him; " he was teaching his disciples, and telling them, ˜The Son of Man is now to be handed over into the power of men, and they will kill him; and three days after being killed he will rise again.' ... The Gospel according to Matthew was the second gospel to be recorded, written around the late 70's or early to mid 80's CE, and seems to be aimed towards an audience of Jews who know and practi...

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I figured that there is so much more run around than with a normal company that has all it's employees at one site everyday. ... It was just at this time when I remembered the 80/20 rule that we went over in class. ... I tried to talk 20% and let him talk 80% of the time. ... Dave says that these days employees are more involved with the administration part of the employer. ... On a personal note I felt that this was an effective assignment in order to get an understanding of the role of HR in the business world. ...

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Drug resistant bacteria has been around for ages. ... Both are fed regularly within their food or administered around them. This causes the most of the bacteria festering in the pig or around the environment to die. ... Morse, a microbiologist, said, "The modern world is becoming a viral superhighway." ... Their treatments are worlds different. ...

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Fertility Awareness Methods or FAMs is based on abstinence from sexual intercourse on days when fertility is probable. ... Reported effectiveness of this method is about 80%. ... Millions of women around the world have used emergency contraceptives safely and effectively. ... The other type of emergency contraception is the insertion of an IUD will prevent pregnancy up to five days after intercourse. Today birth control is widely practiced in the United States and all over the world. ...

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In today's world most people turn to the television for some relaxation and an escape from the real world. It's when the television world is brought into the real world by those people who are influenced by what they see and hear does it ever become a problem or does it? ... "Children may be more fearful of the world around them". This is also known as the "mean world" syndrome. ... When the 70's and 80's came around women took a major step in the direction of gaining respect and fitting into the manes world. ...

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eBay is The World's Online Marketplace. ... On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay, as well as on Half.com, eBay's site dedicated to fixed price trading. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. ... All auctions have a set time period of up to 10 days. ... The company has very high gross margins -- over 80%. ... With eBay, each dollar of revenue has cost $0.20, resulting in the 80% gross margins. ...

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They only grossed around $20,000 during this project and the company only lasted until Bill left for college. ... The only difference this time around was that they would be in charge of fixing the bugs instead of just finding them. ... It was déjà vu all over again as Bill would spend days asleep in class because of the long nights and hours he would spend in front of the computer. ... So Bill and Paul worked around the clock on the BASIC that they had promised. ... Microsoft now dominates 80-85% of the computing and Internet market. ...

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Around 35 years ago, a generation had begun which brought forth a new sense of culture to society. The United States had moved from World War II and was beginning to rebuild a sense of "Americana." ... Being a product of the 80's, I cannot tell you what life was like during these times. ... Look around now days. ...

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In 1932 and 1933, they hit bottom, down about 80% from their highs in the late 20's. ... Stock brokers were running around like crazy to sell their clients stocks at the highest prices possible. ... Large scale or panic selling disrupted the market on a number of "black" days in October 1929. ... The world had been in shock and also it financial distress of there own from the effect of World War 1. The United States was in this mess until the 1940 when World War 2 began and the world started buying products from the U.S. the all the sudden jobs became needed and the economy turn back arou...

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Pete's Playing Days Pete Rose is one of the most decorated players of all time. ... Rose was a member of three world championship teams, went to the World Series a total of five times, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year in 1963 and its Most Valuable Player in 1973. ... He has been spotted in Las Vegas casinos hanging around the sports book, the place one would go to place legal bets on sporting events (Berkow D7). ... We have betting slips, records from bookmakers, and 113 witnesses" (Greenfeld 80). ...

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Rehabilitation is almost a rarity in the prison world. ... Also, only 3% of the total Canadian population is black while 9.5% of federal inmates today are black (an increase of 80% since 2003) (Zinger, I. 2013). ... The total number of people incarcerated has grown from 330,000 in 1980 to around 2 million today (Blumstein, A. 2000). ... The average lockdown lasted twelve days while at least 20 lockdowns lasted for 60 days (Blumstein, A. 2000). ... Prisons would be doing a great job if prisoners were ready to get into the work world, get a stable job, and start contributing to society. ...

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A Women's Right: Pro-life or Pro-choice Abortion is an argument that has been around for centuries. ... This individual human being prepares its own birthday and helps the mother body prepare for its coming into the world. ... Days later, another judge gave her permission to proceed with the abortion. ... The story ended when the woman miscarried a few days after the ruling. ... When asked if the man and woman should have an equal say in the decision, 80% of married men agreed compared to 58% of single men. ...

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It was dated back to 5400 BCE. 3150 BCE (Egypt)- One of Egypt's earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with around 700 jars of wine. 3000 BCE (Egypt)- Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine and established their own limited domestic production. 323 BCE (Greece)- It was said that heavy wine drinking caused Alexander the Great's death of a "mysterious " illness. 193 BCE (Rome)-North African wines dominate after septimius severus' rise to power. 146 BCE (Italy)- The Italian peninsula became the world's first wine-producing region, right around when Rome became the lead...

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Time magazine found that 80% of all children had dieted by the time they had reached fourth grade (Moore). ... While eating right and exercising regularly is healthy and good for ones" body, dieting in today's world can be very dangerous, especially for those who are young and/or uninformed about it. ... Nor will a businesswoman have enough time to exercise seven days a week. ... Not only does it give all people a distorted body image of themselves and those around them, but it can be compared to pornographic materials as well. ...

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