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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from November 2003. Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In Israel, a hard-hitting UN report says that Israel will effectively annex large areas of Palestinian territory as a result of the permits it intends to issue to Palestinians near the wall being built.
Individual development account. An individual development account ( IDA) is an asset building tool designed to enable low-income families to save towards a targeted amount usually used for building assets in the form of home ownership, post-secondary education and small business ownership. [1] In principle IDAs work as matched savings accounts ...
The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos across Chinese society, including a massacre in Guangxi that included acts of cannibalism, as well as massacres in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Hunan. [1] Estimates of the death toll vary widely, typically ranging from 1–2 million.
Putnam (surname) Putnam or Puttnam is a surname. Notable people with the surnames include: Adam Putnam (born 1974), American politician. Ann Putnam, Jr. (1679–1716), an accuser in the Salem witch trials. Ashley Putnam (born 1952), American opera singer. Benjamin Putnam (born 1981), American drag queen and comedian known as BenDeLaCreme.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities). It awards a scholarship and cash prizes ranging from $250 to ...
978-0-7432-0304-3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community is a 2000 nonfiction book by Robert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled " Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital ". Putnam surveys the decline of social capital in the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all ...