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Yone Minagawa, 114 years old and Tomoji Tanabe, 111 years old, are the oldest living individuals on earth as recorded by the Guiness Book of World Records. Both are now living in Japan, which has one of the world’s longest average life spans. This factor is often attributed to the Japanese’ healthy diet [...]

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The increasingly globalized world can be credited to the information revolution made possible by information and communication technologies (ICTs). We have heard incessantly about the benefits brought by these new technologies on the way we do things and the manner in which we communicate.
Critics of globalization are quick to point out, however, that a so-called [...]

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There is no question as to how mobile telephony i.e., the use of mobile phone technology, has changed the lives of millions of Filipinos.
Before the advent of mobile phones in the country in the early 90s and the deregulation of the telecommunications industry, there were only 1.37 million landlines serving about 62 million Filipinos nationwide. [...]

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Published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer
July 19, 2003, p.9
After four years in the university, I came out convinced that the hardest part about learning is not dragging yourself to school (although this could be a problem if you have a class at 7 a.m.), or dealing with anxiety while cramming for exams (I got the [...]

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INTRODUCTION
The United States-led war in Afghanistan came as an immediate response against terrorism after the September 11 terror attacks in the U.S.  On October 7, 2001, the United States, its ally the United Kingdom and supported by a coalition of other countries, invaded Afghanistan.  The military operation was codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom whose target were [...]

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Introduction
After the Cold war, some scholars saw that the rationalist model of explaining phenomena was inadequate. Miles Kahler explains that this “cognitive inadequacy” of rationalist models needs to be modified or even abandoned so as to include other matters such as emotion-laden issues of identity.[1]
Philip Tetlock and Charles McGuire, Jr. saw that policymakers in [...]

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