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Altria Group's joint ventures in tobacco and brewing industries

In 2005, the Altria Group, an international operating company that contains Philip Morris International (PMI) within its embrace created a joint agreement with the China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC).

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Digital media's role in building consumer trust in e-commerce

As e-commerce has progressed from catalogs that had descriptions of the products being sold to small snapshots, to the inclusion of walk-around product demos, the use of digital media now pervades e-commerce.

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Periodontal disease and its systemic health implications

Periodontal disease has different degrees and stages of severity but can result in loss of teeth in the later more severe stages. However, what is disturbing is that this disease is becoming more prevalent in our modern 'developed' societies.

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Global activism and hunger: the Institute for Food and Development Policy

An informed society represents one of the most important assets of a state and of a nation. It constitutes the basis of the public opinion. However, it is not sufficient enough to be informed without being active and supportive of a cause that is affecting the world we live in.

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Islamic faith and secular education in multicultural societies

Culture is an evasive term that is hard to define and even harder to name. This is despite the fact that the term is used definitively and repeatedly in almost every aspect of discussion regarding people.

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Social ethics of negative advertising and its consequences

Although most marketing professionals and consumers agree that people buy more when they feel better, a great deal of advertising has gone negative. Despite its recent popularity, the continuum of negative and positive advertising is not a new topic.

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The relationship between school bullying and academic performance

Feller (2003) defines school bullying as "aggressive and repeated behavior based on an imbalance of power among people" adding that "it ranges from slapping, kicking and other physical abuse to verbal assaults to the new frontier: cyberbullying, in which kids use e-mail and Web sites to humiliate…

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RSS feeds as a critical component of communications strategy

The collection of technologies referred to as Web 2.0 (Bernoff, Li, 2008) share the common goals of ensuring a higher level of communication, collaboration, information-sharing and responsiveness between individuals and groups.

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The limits of unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence

Historically speaking these are often men who can take the best of the ideas of others and compile them to build a case for the goal, a state of peace in a controlled community of men.

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Transnational organized crime and government complicity as a modern threat

Introduction and overview common definition of organized crime is, "Widespread criminal activities, such as prostitution, interstate theft, or illegal gambling, that occur within a centrally controlled formal structure" (Dictionary: organized crime).

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