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Fuel prices and automotive demand in global markets

The key drivers in the global automotive industry are competition, fuel prices, the global economy as a whole and the economy of the U.S. And Europe in particular, and trade barriers/domestic economic policy.

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Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations theory and critique

In his book the Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington explains that the end of the cold war also brought to a conclusion the way wars are fought based on ideology.

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Religious and nationalist causes of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war

This has been apparent within the last century due to the fact that many as six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. From there, religious conflicts have continued in Israel and the Middle East.

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Early detection and response strategies for biological weapon threats

Bioterrorism is potentially one of the deadlier forms of terrorism because it can be silently introduced amidst large populations to cause untold health problems or large numbers of fatalities as well as create a world-wide panic.

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September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States

The changes took place around 8.46 in the morning of 9/11. A commercial airplane filled with about 10,000 gallons of petroleum, flying at a speed of several hundreds miles in an hour dashed through the North Tower of World Trade Centre, located in Lower Manhattan.

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Therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cells for disease treatment

Cloning is the set of techniques applied to build an identical genetic duplicate of a different cell, tissue or a living organism. The material that has been copied having the identical genetic constitution is normally stated to be the clone.

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Al Qaeda: organizational structure, financing, and future threat trends

Many people were heard to observe that "things would never be the same" following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and some even suggested the Osama bin Laden could consider himself a "dead man walking." Almost seven years have passed, though, and while it is reasonable to assert that…

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British reluctance to adopt the euro: political and economic factors

This work will discuss the reluctance of the British to join the EU and will relate the historical phase of the project with an extensive focus on the theoretical aspect. This issue will be addressed from the intergovernmental and liberal intergovernmental perspectives.

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FISA modernization and the balance between counterterrorism and civil liberties

Improving Counterterrorism through Modernization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has long been a part of the toolkit of the U.S. executive branch for responding to threats to national security from foreign powers.

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Cross-border marriages between Hong Kong and mainland China: causes and consequences

CROSS-BORDER MARRIAGES BETWEEN HONG-KONG and MAINLAND CHINA: AN INVESTIGATION of the RATIONALE & CULTURAL, SOCIOECONOMIC and GEOPOLITICAL FACTORS of CROSS-BORDER MARRIAGES

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