Mr. DIAMOND: And all of our neighbors, and most important of all Europe, because Europe's closer as a Western civilization than we are.
If I'd been hoping to bump into Tom Hanks jogging on the beach, the location was much too remote, but as a retreat from civilization, it did quite nicely.
It's hard to imagine now, but Vienna then rivaled London as a seat of Western civilization.
Regarding the latter, the progressive, centuries-long, gradual decline of Islam as a dominant force and civilization reached its nadir in 1924, when Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) simultaneously did away with the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire by overnight transforming the latter into a secular Turkish republic.
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The major costs for Renewing American Civilization, as a course, were for the dissemination of the lectures.
It's time to encourage, perhaps even mandate, the teaching of the Bible in public schools as a primary document of Western civilization.
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The decline appears due mostly to speculative short-term trading and possibly, sales by banks rather than any fundamental change in the nature of a resource that has consistently been treasured as a store of value since civilization began.
Director James Cameron takes audiences to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.
The natural gas revolution should trigger a burst of entrepreneurial spirit across the nation as the incremental changes to our civilization should lead to a business revival and the dreams of new fortunes.
We do not want to back a loser now, as it is a one-off bet with the future of civilization resting on the outcome of this particular race.
Even more than Assange, too, Zuckerberg guides where we are going next, as, yes this sounds pretentious, a civilization.
All visitors must be on a group tour to enter the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, which means that only a few visitors make it as far as the town of Taplejung, the last point of civilization (which itself is gradually recovering from a deadly and destructive earthquake that hit in September 2011).
Western civilization as we know it evolved during a time when women were in relatively short supply, due mainly to death in childbirth.
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As far as civilization moves forward, I always seem to find that nature gives us signs that emerge to a new founded future.
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"We are looking at a realization that Western civilization is not ending as we know it, " Singer said.
Civilization V also was a big seller as a PC exclusive, and the same goes for Metro 2033 and Warhammer.
According to Mr. Gingrich, GOPAC was better off as a result of the nationwide dissemination of the "Renewing American Civilization" message that was done by the course, because the course disseminated the message of the movement and of GOPAC without cost to GOPAC.
They declared independence for a region they recognize as Azawad, the cradle of their nomadic civilization.
The World Health Organization recently announced that the number one disease afflicting Western civilization is depression, and depression is often described as a state of high anxiety devoid of meaning and purpose.
You didn't feel only as if you were having lunch at a fancy restaurant, but at the crossroads of civilization.
If it serves as a wake up call, it should be to the fact that the veneer of civilization can be terrifyingly thin.
In both, a self-reliant frontiersman typically served as a bridge between wild nature and community, often demonstrating that for all the gains civilization brought, something noble and pure was being lost.
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"'The most important thing for me about Oxford was not what I learnt there in terms of set texts and set books we had to read, but in terms of a respect for the best in human civilization, " she is quoted as saying at the ceremony.
Insofar as civilization's collapse is something we're bringing upon ourselves with a little help from world powers, Martin and his readers might relate to radical environmentalists or peak oil environmentalists, who subscribe to the theory that there is a date when petroleum production will max out and decline rapidly.
Iraq -- a cradle of ancient civilization -- is the home of such fabled cities such as Ur, Babylon, Kabala and Nineveh.
The world is catching up to him, but it's a safe bet that whatever time Faustino has left will be spent staying as far away from civilization as he can manage.
The company is a major publisher, developer, and distributor of video games such as Grand Theft Auto, the Civilization series, and the Borderland series.
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His view of books and libraries as cornerstones of civilization and communities inspired "Fahrenheit 451, " which Mr. Bradbury wrote on a rental typewriter in the basement of a University of California, Los Angeles library.
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As the Classic Gaming website reports, Microprose, once known as the name behind Civilization, Railroad Tycoon and other classic games, is now set to release a bundle of new products that likely wouldn't garner a second glance if not for the brand.
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This question is being taken increasingly seriously by scientists as more is learnt about the impact a near earth object (NEO) would have on the future of civilization.
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