883 articles on "government"

Innovations to Drive Japanese Fuel Cell Market

Japanese government has recognized the fuel cell and hydrogen technology to be one of the most important R&D areas in order to build low-carbon society in the world. In order to commercialize fuel cell and hydrogen technologies as well as to create n...

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Should We Worry About Immigrant Assimilation and Education?

Yes, they are important to our future! Many of tomorrow's workers and business owners are the children of today's immigrants. More than 40% of the growth of our labor force in the late 1990s was due to immigrants, and since immigration WIL...

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Government Apathy - A Different View

I have always believed that political apathy starts at the bottom. That is the citizens. They do not go to meetings when issues are being discussed that impact their lives. They do not speak up at the earlyist opportunity to provide input. I recently...

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Gay Rights Are Civil Rights

Our biggest tragedy as a country was the enslavement of Black people who were stolen from their native lands and forced into slavery. In order to end this tyranny, courageous people risked their own lives in what has become known as the Civil Rights ...

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Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy

Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than 200 years now. Our grandfathers and fat...

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As The Illinois Economic Death Spiral Begins, Can The Federal Government Be Far Behind?

Interesting but sad reading from a recent Associated Press report. The article reported that the state of Illinois has now reached the desperation phase of its economic malaise: - The state has not paid many of its bills for months due to shortfall ...

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BP Oil Spill, Are You Kidding Me? Put a Plug in It Already!

BP's oil spill in the Gulf is out of control, and after viewing the new digital CNN video of the recently cut well cap, it's obvious to a plumber, and most blue collar tradesmen, their engineers are also miserably incapable of even slowing ...

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The Prison Mirror part of Prison Series

The true measure of social consciousness is prisons. They tell more about society than any travelogue possibly could. They are the product of ignorance as a tradition and undeniable social regression. Send a law breaker to prison and convert him to ...

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Man's Rights in Objectivism

One thing that many people agree upon these days is that man possesses rights. What the vast majority of people disagree on is what exactly man's rights are. Objectivism holds that man's rights are individualistic, as in his rights are his,...

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Binocular Trends and Technology

There have been some incredible developments in optical technology in recent years. One of the most interesting new products comes from a company called Torrey Pines Logic. It has been developed in partnership with the United States Navy, and it is c...

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