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From 1976 to 1989, the quality of life and the strength of the economy in China improved dramatically, but the country remained far behind the West, and political conditions were not favorable to any genuine dissent against government policies.

Someday you will be a senior citizen and you will appreciate one of these volunteers yourself . So try and make a difference in the life of a senior today, and when your turn comes, you might just appreciate it a lot more

Drew Barrymore is the source of some of the most interesting and inspirational quotes by celebrites. Her quotations and sayings enlighten fans on what she has been through and how she has used the events to make herself a better person.

This is a critical review and analysis of Lawrence Wright's book about al-Qaeda and the events which led to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

Geo-political and geological forces contributed to the top ten geographical changes of the decade. Most are geological events that mark a collision course between commercial/industrial development and ecology.

Unanticipated risks bring a full test of the launch emergency systems. These, and other events, bring better understanding of the realities of spaceflight, plus the participants own motivations, and erase some misconceptions.

Essentially, this article is an extended truth. It is based primarily on actual events, but I have incorporated a few creative touches. It explores the views of a long distance hiker, and his observations while hitchhiking.

The 1920s was a time of great cultural development and reform, as depicted by many different events.

William E. Dodd's Career took him from the forefront of Old South history to the cutting edge of current events.

Explains why Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is Modernist literature.

The River City Roots Fest is a great free community festival that will incorporate everything that the city of Missoula is known for.

Since the 1950's, when our technology began to advance dramatically, meteorologists and scientist's ability to predict the weather has improved significantly.

What can occur to an over-worked, under-paid, and all-too-impatient cardboard display assembler? Maybe not what you'd first expect. Read on and find out.

In April of 1940, the merchant freighter SS Mormacsea smuggled 4.5 million in gold ingots out of German occupied Norway. Who owned the gold? What happened to it ?

Japanese universities possess none of the attributes commonly associated with higher education, such as the capacity to "generate knowledge that previously did not exist" (p. 238).

A review of Edmund S. Morgan's Benjamin Franklin biography.

Although I knew that Radio Free Europe's pro-democracy news coverage was sponsored to spread Western values in Soviet bloc countries, I had assumed it was defunct after the Cold War. As it turns out, though, Radio Free Europe is as active as ever.

A power grid is a very vulnerable thing. It can be blown up, it can be blown down. It can get caught in the cross winds of economics and public policy. From the Bahamas to The Big Easy and Baghdad to Boca-stan, power lines are always under assault.

The desires of the characters in George Moore's The Untilled Field are revealed through their dreams. A unified need is displayed to create a new Ireland for a kind of nationalistic nourishment of the soul.

Life is rarely perfect. There are always bad things and bad moments, but I know them now solely as points of comparison. The bad things and moments are survivable, provided you do not surrender to them.

The novel "Dream Jungle," by Jessica Hagedorn, is about the fraudulent discovery in 1971 of a Stone Age tribe in the Philippines. The novel reflects a turbulent period of Philippine history.