Rich-get-richer refers to socially adept and confident teens with well-established peer groups using social networking sites to maintain close relationships and keep in contact with long distance friends. ... Theoretically, the growing options of teens to be able to connect with their peers with impressive immediacy, synchronicity, and ease of access would only further their social development, but this online connection is not how adolescents progress socially in such vital years. ... Social media sites not only interfere with the developmental process in the long term but they can also harm ...

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The annihilation of alien peoples as a means of conquest and supremacy-long the leitmotif of history-is increasingly an aberration, albeit one that still haunts our conscience with disturbing frequency. ... Although the scope of ICC action may, to that extent, be constrained, there is no dearth of actual or prospective atrocities of a sufficient scale or gravity among signatory states to warrant international prosecutions. ... The ICC prosecutor has already indicated his decision to "closely follow" the situation in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which involves an esti...

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Citizens can choose between different baskets of policies every five years and maintain long-term control of their governance. ... The overwhelming majority of states go further than this in redistributing some of the nation's wealth to ease the lives of the poorer members of their society. ... In a particular area or society (say, the Middle East) where there has been no historical basis for the growth of liberal, individualistic values it seems wrong to lay our values as a standard by which to judge their system and call it wrong. ... There is no need to rely on the benevolence or nous ...

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I saw no shooting at the troops. ... Current attitudes in Northern Ireland have also been shaped by the long-term investigations which were undertaken by the British government. ... This interpretation was supported by the explicitly biased findings of the report which found that "there was no general breakdown in army discipline"8, this to nationalists showed the British judicial system as corrupt and rather than ending distrust for loyalist institutions it instead deepens this distrust. ... The final conclusions in 2010 showed that "None of the victims were armed"10, that...

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