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POPSWorld Press Trends: Global Newspaper Circulation & Advertising Lots and lots of hard numbers @ source. Click it More stats: The Belgians spend the most time with their newspapers -- 54 minutes a day -- followed by the Chinese, Finns and Brazilians, with 48 minutes each, on average. The Japanese remain the world’s greatest newspaper buyers, with 630.9 daily sales per thousand adults. They are followed by Norway with 601.2 sales per thousand, Colombia with 587.8, Finland with 514.7 and Sweden with 466.2.
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POPSExpert Opinion as Legal Evidence While courts depend on expert opinions in reaching sound judgments, the role of the expert witness in legal proceedings is associated with a litany of problems. Perhaps most prevalent is the question of under what circumstances should testimony be admitted as expert opinion. We review the changing policies adopted by American courts in an attempt to ensure the reliability and usefulness of the scientific and technical information admitted as evidence. We argue that these admissibility criteria are best seen in a dialectical context as a set of critical questions of the kind commonly used in models of argumentation.
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POPSChalmers Johnson and his “Nemesis” Thomas P. M. Barnett, a very different analyst of American power and possibility in The Pentagon’s New Map and Blueprint for Action, will join the conversation.
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POPSUnicef Report on Children's Wellbeing in Rich Countries some interesting findings: Relative child poverty remains above the 15% mark in the three Southern European countries (Portugal, Spain, Italy) and in three Anglophone countries (the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland). Belgium and Canada head the league table of ‘children’s educational well-being’ The percentage of young people (aged 11, 13 and 15) who report having used cannabis varies even more widely from less than 5% in Greece and Sweden to more than 35% in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada In the OECD countries as a whole, there is a slight trend towards decreasing life satisfaction between the ages of 11 and 15, particularly for girls (See the Key Findings or the Full Report
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POPSOpen-Source Spying. Thorough article on the US Intelligence agencies, their information technology & possible future innovations.
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