Updated: 2009-12-31 01:41:13
16– 31 December 2009
香港
1. 新年新牙刷 [香港經濟日報] 2009-12-31 C08 健康 —智慧牙醫 吳子傑 牙科醫生
2. 醫知健：吮奶瞓覺幼兒蛀半棚牙 [太陽報] 2009-12-26 A10 港聞
3. 口腔生物 [都市日報] 2009-12-24 P22 健康 健康口腔
4. 黃金刷牙時間── 2 分鐘 [大公報] 2009-12-23 A26 中華醫藥 健康新產品
5. 牙齒凹凸不平逼棄朗誦比賽箍牙失敗名校女生告牙醫 [蘋果日報] 2009-12-20 A10 港聞
6. 紅酒有助 預防齲齒 [香港商報] 2009-12-17 B06 養生之道 醫學前沿
7. 矯齒致抑鬱 病人圖自殺 牙醫賠177 萬 [明報] 2009-12-17 A02 要聞
8. 醫知健：中藥加骨膠原補骨健齒 [太陽報] 2009-12-16 A16 港聞 醫知健
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Updated: 2009-12-30 10:01:08
Constructing the Past publishes research work of the students of the Department of History at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Constructing the Past is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet.Please click here to access.
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Updated: 2009-12-30 10:00:39
The letters written by Vincent Van Gogh have appeared many times before, but this is the first time they have appeared as part of a complete digital edition. This fascinating collection was created by the Van Gogh Museum and the Huygens Institute, and the letters were edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nineke Bakker. [...]
Updated: 2009-12-30 09:59:00
Articles deal with a wide range of topics in applied linguistics that include: mother tongue and second language teaching, first and second language acquisition, bilingual education, sociolinguistics, language planning, sociology of language, psycholinguistics, literacy, applied phonetics, translation/terminology, and multimedia and language teaching.
Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée/Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics is published in either English [...]
Updated: 2009-12-30 09:57:28
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a peer reviewed Open Access journal that aims to develop inter-disciplinary theoretical models as applied to human science research on aesthetic questions, understood in their broadest meaning, as a means to transcend traditional subject boundaries and to integrate regional, national, international and global perspectives; and finally, to also bridge [...]
Updated: 2009-12-30 08:39:20
A portion of the Langston Hughes Papers are available on Yale University’s Digital Library site. Hughes’ complete papers (1862-1980) are comprised of “letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects” and are available at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. For the digitized collection, visitors should click on the “See All Images” option [...]
Updated: 2009-12-30 08:36:10
This clever website from the BBC aids people learning English, by offering help in the form of “Words in the News”, “Quizzes”, videos via YouTube, and English “makeovers” in “General and Business English”. “Words in the News”, “The Teacher”, and “Keep Your English Up to Date” help learners with their “Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation”. In [...]
Updated: 2009-12-29 17:16:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Thursday December 31, 2009 It's getting easier to do business in poor countries By Don Cayo 29 Dec 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : subSaharan Africa economic growth Rwanda developing Asia development Middle East North Africa Eastern Europe Central Asia The poorest countries on earth are the ones that make it hardest for people and companies to do . business But now an analysis of worldwide regulatory reform by the World Bank offers hope that many poor coutnries though by no means all are starting to ease up on their business-killing rules . The pace of regulatory reform is picking up in every part of the world , and the fastest-changing areas during the past year have been in Eastern Europe , Central Asia , the Middle East and North Africa all places in need of an economic boost . And the greatest improvements anywhere have been in Rwanda , bucking the long-time trend in subSaharan . Africa To read my Vancouver Sun column on the report , click h ere . And to link to a series of regional and sector reports from the report itself , click here Link to this blog E-mail Print Share Your Comments No Comments
Updated: 2009-12-29 10:05:23
Persons interested in international governance and comparative political science will find this website most informative. The site was created and is maintained by the South African government, and it contains hundreds of papers, policy briefs, statistical documents, and annual reports related to the operation of the country. The website is fairly uncomplicated, and the site [...]
Updated: 2009-12-29 09:50:18
Filozofski vestnik is edited and published by the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The journal is open to different philosophical orientations, styles and schools, and welcomes theoretical dialogue between them.
Filozofski vestnik is a fully refereed journal of philosophy with an interdisciplinary character. It provides [...]
Updated: 2009-12-29 09:20:50
The website was created by the Courtauld Institute of Art, a British institute created for the study of Western art. It is “designed to be explored,” and with over 40,000 images and a network of over 500,000 links, there’s a great deal to explore. Because of the vast amount of content, visitors might find it helpful to [...]
Updated: 2009-12-23 19:35:00
This White Paper distills lessons from the financial crisis to showcase how alternative institutions and legislation could help develop a healthy ecology of finance that delivers social and environmental value in addition to profit.
Updated: 2009-12-22 18:42:00
India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a rethink of all human services.
Updated: 2009-12-21 16:22:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Thursday December 31, 2009 A new breed of philanthropists and volunteers By Don Cayo 21 Dec 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : poverty foreign aid development charity A new breed of philanthropists is emerging in Canada and around the world rich , smart donors who bear down on social and economic problems with all the energy and skills that made them their money in the first . place At the same time , a lot of mature and well educated Canadians of more modest means are finding less expensive , but highly effective ways , to also put their skills to . work These two phenomena dominate the oped page of the Vancouver Sun today . One is my piece , part of a 20-part series on trends that have shaped the decade , on the new ideas and new blood that are shaking up old notions in once-conservative world of philanthropy . The other by Derek Evans , the executive director of CUSO-VSO , Don Johnston , the CEO of Canadian Executive Service Organization and Karen Takacs , executive director of Canadian Crossroads International , looks that how volunteerism , once dominated by the young , has matured and grown to fill
Updated: 2009-12-18 22:58:00
Our most popular articles of 2009 point to key themes: ethics and economics, foreign policy fault lines, and low-hanging fruit for clean energy and climate.
Updated: 2009-12-17 23:54:00
A Tobin Tax on financial transactions could generate significant funds for climate change adaptation in vulnerable island states while also helping to stabilize the global financial system.
Updated: 2009-12-12 17:40:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Thursday December 31, 2009 Two books offer insights into women's ills and mass poverty By Don Cayo 12 Dec 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : mass poverty poverty aid Asia Africa women's rights A lot of economic development efforts in the Third World are focused on women for two good reasons they tend to make very effective use of it , and they badly need . it They very badly need it , as is underlined in Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and his wife , Sheryl WuDunn . The sub-title , Turning Oppression into Opportunity tell you much of what you need to know about the book's tone and . content A less revealing title is T he Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz , although it's sub-title , Bridging the Gap Between Rich and , Poor also points the reader in the right . direction Kristof and WuDunn write for The New York Times and their book focuses very directly on women's plights in many countries around the world . Novogratz , whose book chronicles her growth from keen but green volunteer in Africa to CEO of a major social investment fund , touches on a broader range of . issues But , as I note in a review on
Updated: 2009-12-09 18:33:00
nbsp; The issue of averting -- or, when that fails, ending -- genocides and other mass atrocities is inherently an international one, and not something a nation like Canada can do alone.
nbsp; But the international record in this regard is weak, and Canada could provide much more leadership if it wanted to. My analysis and my prescription are spelled out in a Vancouver Sun column that you can access by clicking here.
nbsp; For half a dozen of my earlier posts on genocide a mass murder -- series of reflections temming from my back-to-back visits two years ago to Cambodia's Killing Fields, Auschwitz and Birkenau, and Rwanda's genocide sites -- click here.
