After studying 198 countries and self-ruling territories, Pew finds that in 75 of them there is some curb by local or national authorities on efforts to persuade others to adopt one's faith.

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Some UFO followers, or self-proclaimed Ufologists, believe the military is studying extraterrestrial spacecraft there.

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Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.

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Critics have accused business schools of culpability in the many high-profile lapses of corporate ethics in recent years, and Dean Plowman said studying the schools' mindfulness could indicate whether they are capable of self-correction.

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