When governments decide to reduce greenhouse emissions, they must also create fair and workable programs. Outside the United States, industrialized countries have reached a consensus on the need to take action to slow climate change. Despite President Bush’s retreat from a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide and his Administration’s disavowal of the Kyoto Protocol, even Bush acknowledges...

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

(Matthew 26:11) Is poverty intractable? Have all advanced, industrial countries failed to reduce poverty? We can learn more about the presumed intractability of poverty by comparing advanced industrial countries to learn whether any of them have experienced recent, substantial declines in child poverty. This is just the tack taken by Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak in their analysis of changes in ...

Background and aims: As suggests by the Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDR) theory, educationattainment and other socioeconomic status (SES) indicators have a smaller impact on the health andwell-being of non-White than White Americans. To test whether MDR also applies to happiness, in thepresent study, Blacks and Whites were compared in terms of the effect of education attai...

Abstract The feminist movement in the United States like other countries has tried to establish equality for women. From the first attempts to gain constitutional right for vote, up to the current radical demands, feminists have struggled to make changes in the U.S. party politics and obtain their rights within the parties. One of the important issues in which women played a key role in party ...

Despite the comparatively few cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) that arose outside of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia in 2014, public health response partners around the world developed a patchwork of plans and policies to monitor thousands of people exposed to EVD, quarantine suspected cases, isolate confirmed cases, and close borders to prevent further spread of the disease. Deeply affecte...

The Japanese life insurance industry developed through the 1980s in a stable manner, supported by the high growth of domestic economy. The business in force including individual annuity and group insurance exceeded 1,300 trillion yen. In 1987, the United States was already replaced by Japan as the No. 1 nation by the insurance in force. Subsequently, the in-force insurance ratio of the national...

the first international convention on maritime transportation is thebrussels’ convention of 1924. this convention was widely acceptedthroughout the world and; thus, lasted for a long time due to the widespreadsupport of the countries possessing fleet for this convention and the lack ofexistence of a legal document in terms of maritime transportation. thepassage of time together with innovations...