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The newer Port Północny (“North Port”) is Poland’s largest maritime development project (its first stage completed in 1975); it handles coal exports and petroleum imports, much of the latter processed at a nearby refinery. The city has an international airport and ferry connections to ...
The pop quiz that I give all the time when I’m speaking to different audiences is, “What proportion of the world’s population do you think lives outside the country in which they were born?” Answers always overestimate it, even among expert audiences: they’ll say 50 percent or 20 ...
Wartella, E., Rideout, V., Zupancic, H., Beaudoin-Ryan, L. & Lauricella, A.Teens, Health, and Technology: A National Survey(Center on Media and Human Development, School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2015). Shaban-Nejad, A., Brownstein, J. S. & Bucke...
which consists of a narrow strip of land along both banks of the river. The political separation between The Gambia andSenegalhas, however, long hindered the development of the resources of the river and its basin, though in 1978 the two countries established the Gambia River Development Organiza...
Education has been given a high priority in the state’s development program, and both the government and private organizations have made a significant contribution to the promotion of education at all levels. However, while thousands of primary and secondary schools have ensured that basic education...
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development of smaller dwelling units. With the resulting shift toward the nuclear family, the average size of the family decreased to an average of about four members. Additional changes to the traditional family structure included an increase in the average age of first marriage and a rise in ...
and the production of petrochemicals and cement—indicate the importance of the city’s output for the national economy. Alexandria and its environs account for roughly two-fifths of Egypt’s industrial production. Most industrial development has taken place in the western approaches to the city, ...
Edo’s development into a city did not occur until the Tokugawa period (1603–1867), when it became the capital of the Tokugawa shogunate. During this period, however, the imperial family remained in Kyōto, the ancient imperial capital. With the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which ended the ...