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Public health mitigation following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Natural disasters are by their very nature's unexpected in their arrival and devastating in their impact on health and infrastructure. This can make it very difficult to adequately respond to such incidents, especially in less-developed regions of the world.

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NTT's i-mode strategy: targeting youth and managing market risk

The team viewed the i-mode as an end, not a means. The end was communication. By taking this broad, benefits-based view of their product, the team realized that the youth market was the most in need of alternate means of communication and decided to target this underserved market.

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Charles Mingus's "Moanin'" in the Times Square album

Nostalgia in Times Square album is a grand tribute to one of jazz's finest bass players. The second track on the album is Mingus' "Moanin'," and is the most energetic of the collection.

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Problems with biblical literalism and fundamentalist interpretation

How would you advocate solving or addressing these problems?

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Effective and ineffective interventions for children with autism

How would you address ethical concerns regarding self-injury?

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Georgia O'Keeffe's "Jack in the Pulpit" and abstract art

Abstraction challenges the notion that art should be representational. Not all art represents a recognizable object, such as a landscape or a still life. Art that is non-representational is generally referred to as abstract.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" key themes and philosophy

"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them." (paragraph 12)

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Why parents choose unproven autism treatments over scientific interventions

Those treatment options will vary from individual to individual, and also depending on parental preferences. Interventions are usually non-invasive and include behavioral therapy. However, unscientific and pseudo-scientific solutions to autism remain disturbingly popular.

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How BMW and Bridgestone achieve competitive advantage through differentiation

While the owners of private companies can define success on their own terms, rational investors define success in terms of key market metrics. They use net profit, dividend distribution, market share and growth measures to determine if a company has been successful.

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Gender roles and stereotypes in Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot

Billy Wilder's 1959 film Some Like it Hot playfully explores gender, sexuality, and gender bending. Marilyn Monroe plays Sugar Cane, a stereotypically dumb-witted blonde with no real aspirations beyond finding a man to take care of her.

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