They cover a variety of subjects, including multiculturalism, the training of Adult Education champions and global citizenship education through the Model UN General Assembly.

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It will be open during the entire duration of the Expo, hosting events such as a Model UN General Assembly and a musical gala.

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Indeed, my son plays jazz saxophone, is on the tennis team, occasionally plays Xbox, hangs out with friends on the weekends and participates in several clubs, like Model UN.

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His most successful buildings were small ones, the jewel-like pavilions of the exquisite museum in the gardens at Washington's Dumbarton Oaks, and his own, iconic glass house in Connecticut built on the Miesien model, although Mies himself remarked how un-Miesian it was in its details.

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But the real reason why books are going to vanish is the remarkably un-business-like business model of the publishers.

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The third article cited by Nasibu contains nothing more than self-serving UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change model predictions (as opposed to empirical evidence) that global warming will dry up much of Africa.

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Among the desk decorations, the occasional conventional baby photo seems almost ridiculously un-ironic, amid other personal props like a horde of model dinosaurs riding motorcycles, cuddly toy gremlins with shocking pink fur and knobbly yellow stress balls.

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They developed a climate computer model for the archipelago that was based on a mid-range temperature projection being used for a big upcoming UN global-climate report - the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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