She woke up and thought “What have they done to me?”. The ambulance left her where the road ends, 30 minutes from her home in the Andes of Peru.  She walked, recently operated, to reach home. This the story of Demetria one of the women subject to compulsory sterilization within the framework of public policy
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Which state in the world has the funny geographical shape? If I were to answer, it would be the state of Palestine or the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and looking at the map below, it is obvious why. Here is a breakdown of the West bank map as designed in the Oslo II Accord:  
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     With the start of the 20th century, America became one of the most powerful economies in the world. With an abundance of steel, iron, money and modern construction techniques, it seemed natural that the course of action was to build massive structures that would show the newly accumulated wealth.      Starting in Chicago in
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This is an article that probably should have been published on March 8th. I recently read an article in the Economist entitled “Economics is uncovering its gender problem” that intended to express a quite often encountered reality: women participation in labor force is overshadowed. Economics is not the exception, and that is the reason why
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