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Google, Languages and Regions
May 07, 2008Google, the world’s largest search engine, has become the long envisioned global conscience. In the course of answering over 2,5 billion requests a day, Google provides a vision of community and identity: it tells us not only what is out there, but also who we are.
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State of The Union
May 07, 2008In his State of the Union address, held before both houses of Congress, the president of the United States of America takes the opportunity to review his achievements up to the present and to put forward the goals of the government in the coming period.
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Pop(e) Star
May 06, 2008Pope John Paul II not only welcomed high ranking guest from all over the world, he also liked to visit his disciples where they are living. In 104 apostolic voyages John Paul II travelled 1.2 kilometres; that equals 29 times the journey around the world or three times to the moon.
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Lacktopia
April 18, 2008As part of Superstudio's Anti-Design Campaign, the Quaderna table formed a striking contrast to the pop design of the late 1960s, opposing all its curvy, colourful forms. Superstudio was convinced that there can be no renovation of design until ‘structural changes have occurred in society’, as Peter Lang and...
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skype – where the poor pay more
April 18, 2008Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Skype is available in 28 languages and is used in almost every country around the world counting 250 million account holders. Skype allows users to make telephone calls from their computer to other Skype users free of charge,...
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The European
April 18, 2008While the European Union makes a huge effort to discover a common denominator of the European Culture, international operating companies are currently defining it through cheapness. Spoiled throughout the fat years after the war, Europeans got used to chic clothes, good food and two times vacation a year.
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IKEA
April 18, 2008IKEA is a multinational empire that penetrates with a wide range of products from Alesund till Zorg (IKEA-language) the last corners of the countries it "conquered". Like the British Empire introduced its political system and its laws in all colonies in order to get control of governance, IKEA does...
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O Lord Forgive us our Annual CO2
April 18, 2008Vrij Nederland issue Nr. 16/2007 features a world map of TD, which visualizes the current carbon dioxide emissions by representing the yearly number of trees that each country would have to plant to compensate this pollution.
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Tablezine - The American Way
April 18, 2008Tablezine Brendan McGetrick China emitted 511.8 billion yuan (US$64 billion) worth of pollution in 2004, equivalent to 3.1% of GDP. Or 581 Shenzhou 6 space missions. The estimated clean-up cost for this pollution was calculated at 287.4 billion yuan (US$36 billion), 1.8% of GDP.
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McWorld
April 18, 2008Out of all Fast food chains in the World, McDonalds is not only its synonym but also by far the largest, most successful and most criticised. McDonalds was founded 15th may 1940 in San Bernardino, California by Ray Kroc.