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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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This Muslim microstate could soon be the world’s smallest country

Strange Maps

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. On a visit in 2014, Pope Francis praised Albania’s religious tolerance as an example for the world.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

As syndemics can be traced back in time through bioarcheology and archival research, described in contemporary disease crises through ethnography and epidemiology, and projected into the further as a result of the ongoing cascade of emergent infectious diseases, teaching syndemics allows a wide historic perspective on human health.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. As incentive to integrate, the federal government in the ’60s offered emergency dollars to districts whose desegregation plans were approved. Story continues below video. What did matter was integration.

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“Charette and Jules Verne”

Life and Landscapes

And so we dive into NAJVS archives and their fabulous Palik Series of early Jules Verne translations edited by Brian Taves [1959-2019]. Brian Taves opined as much in his preface to the 2014 republication of Jules Vernes William J. And besides, his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel [1814-1886] , was a liberal Republican and an atheist!

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Tinker v. Des Moines: Youth Rights in a Time of Plausible Genocide

Zinn Education Project

Source: Bettmann Archive via Getty Images I was one of the student plaintiffs in the case. But we weren’t anti-American, we just disagreed with government policies, especially the atrocities in Vietnam. Demonstration at Columbus Circle in New York City protesting Israeli attacks against Gaza, August 1, 2014.

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