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Dollarization: Is It Worth It?
By mid-2001 a number of Latin American countries had officially adopted the U.S. dollar as their currency. Ecuador replaced its sucre with the dollar in September 2000. On Jan. 1, 2001, El Salvador ...
China's Relations with Its Neighbours
During the administration of Chinese Pres. Hu Jintao, who took office in 2003, China adopted a so-called Good Neighbour Policy as part of a new strategy of "peaceful development," in which China ...
Mixed Martial Arts Makes Its Mark
Originally decried in the 1990s as a brutal blood sport without rules (Arizona Sen. John McCain famously called cage combat "human cockfighting" and sought to have it banned), by 2007 mixed martial ...
The New Millennium-Just When Is It Anyway?
No sooner had people planning their 1999 New Year's Eve celebrations referred to Jan. 1, 2000, as ushering in the 3rd millennium than someone declaimed that the new millennium would not really begin ...
Fan Fiction-TV Viewers Have It Their Way
Television shows had long captivated audiences and provided a temporary escape from reality for viewers who could vicariously live another life. Some devoted viewers would often discuss their ...
Standard Limited, The
English-language daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in Mombasa in 1902 as a weekly, the African Standard, by A.M. Jeevanjee, an Indian merchant. Jeevanjee hired an ...
one-horse shay
open two-wheeled vehicle that was the American adaptation of the French chaise. Its chairlike body, seating the passengers on one seat above the axle, was hung by leather braces from a pair of square ...
Neoplatonism
by the one great philosophical and religious genius of the school, Plotinus. The ancient philosophers who are generally classified as Neoplatonists called themselves simple "Platonists," as did the ...
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