Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the Robber?s Nest Bang! Ping; A bullet whistled by my left ear. Bang! Ping! Thud! Another whistled by my right ear, clipping a lock of hair, and burying itself in the stalk of the heavy blacksnake whip that I was flourishing aloft at the time. ?Curse you! Won?t you stop now?? shouted a voice behind me, to which I had thus far given no heed. ?War, yes, stranger,? I drawled, reining up, and wheeling my horse imperturbably, ?I reckon I will this time,...
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: When it comes to global environmental health problems, few? if any?rank higher than water pollution and lack of sanitation. In developing nations, vast numbers of people lack adequate sanitation. According to Water and Sanitation in the Worlds Cities: Local Action for Global Goals, a March 2003 report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 83% of African city dwellers lack toilets connected to sewers; for Asias cities, the proportion is 55%. The Worl...
Excerpt: Chapter I; IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. ?My dear Mr. Bennet,? said his lady to him one day, ?have you heard that Net...
Excerpt: Karl Latte, best man ever worked for me. Unconventional.... auri cocks an eyebrow, what's that supposed to mean? independent as hell. Born five centuries too late, sees himself as a knight in black ostrich hide. Used to be a cop, but doesn't give a rat's hind end about law. Convince him you're the underdog, and he'll never quit?not while he breathes.
Excerpt: These days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if I remember well, that Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go and render homage to Your Excellency. Now I say that ?with his spurs, he is on his way.? Should he reach destination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your Excellency, as from many parts I am urged to send him off, so as to dispel the loathing and disgust cause...
Excerpt: ?Your worship will take warning as much as I am a Turk,? returned Sancho; ?but, as you say this mischief might have been avoided if you had believed me, believe me now, and a still greater one will be avoided; for I tell you chivalry is of no account with the Holy Brotherhood, and they don?t care two maravedis for all the knights?errant in the world; and I can tell you I fancy I hear their arrows whistling past my ears this minute.? ?Thou art a coward by nature,...
Statistical Reference Document
Excerpt: ... [Estimates are based on data from the 2003 Service Annual Survey and administrative records. Estimates for 2002 and prior years have been revised to reflect historical corrections to individual responses. Dollar volume estimates are shown in millions of dollars, consequently estimates may not be additive. Except where indicated, estimates have been adjusted using the results of the 1997 Economic Census] ...
Economics
Towards an Aggregate Index of Transparency: Basic Unbundling into Two Dimensions -- Ec/Institutional transparency: content, accessibility and usefulness of economic and institutional information provided by public institutions -- Economic and Financial Information -- Implementation of Freedom of Information laws -- Transparency in the budget and its process -- Transparency of economic policy-making -- Transparency of the public administration -- Political transparency: r...
Fiction
Introduction: What a racket do Authors make about this: The Debate Over Maternal Breastfeeding in Early Modern England In the seventeenth century, the vast majority of noble- and gentlewomen employed commoners as wet nurses. This practice, in combination with rising religious conservatism, incited a socio-religious controversy about breastfeeding.
Excerpt: THE innkeeper, seeing Don Quixote slung across the ass, asked Sancho what was amiss with him. Sancho answered that it was nothing, only that he had fallen down from a rock and had his ribs a little bruised. The innkeeper had a wife whose disposition was not such as those of her calling commonly have, for she was by nature kind?hearted and felt for the sufferings of her neighbours, so she at once set about tending Don Quixote, and made her young daughter, a very ...
Nutrition Reference Publication
Introduction: ? sa cent neuvi?me session, le Comit? financier ? a reconnu l?importance des services de traduction de l?Organisation et a recommand? que le Secr?tariat fournisse d?autres informations concernant le financement de ces services et les m?canismes financiers en place pour garantir des r?sultats optimaux pour les Membres. Il s?est inqui?t? du fait que les restrictions budg?taires pourraient avoir une incidence n?gative sur les cr?dits allou?s aux services de tr...
Bibliography: p. 57-61
Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock instead of a...