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       Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms whose genetic composition has been modified in such a precise and sophisticated way not found in nature under natural conditions of crossbreeding or recombination. Specifically known as GMO technology, such genetic engineering promises to be faster and more effectual than traditional crop and animal breeding. Recently, however, pressing issues have emerged, and definitive answers have yet to be discovered. People are wondering more and more whether GMOs should be considered a technological breakthrough or simply more problems than we bargained for.

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       Having sheltered the first batch of Afghan refugees following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the border city of Peshawar was also used as a base during the holy war waged by the mudjahadeens, or the Afghan fighters. Later on, the city continued to receive Afghan refugees fleeing the confusion of the civil war - at that time, the American CIA and Pakistani intelligence services were covertly operating within Afghanistan. Although a substantial number of refugees also fled from the Taliban following their ascension to power, a period of relative calm and stability was undeniably established under their administration ...

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       "Prime Minister Thaksin, my daughter disappeared on October 6th 1976, and has since been lost. I know that she's dead, but I haven't been able to find her bones. Can you please help me find her bones so that I can move forward with the ceremonial merit making? Dinosaur bones are lost for millions of years yet still recovered. My daughter died only 25 years ago, why haven't her bones been found?" This father's impassioned plea poignantly bespeaks not only of a father's grievance over his daughter's passing, but of a desperate need to regain a sense of understanding, justice and honor, after almost three decades following the brutal suppression of the students protests.

       Considered one of the founders of Modernista Art, otherwise known as Art Nouveau in Spain, Antonio Gaudi's far-reaching imagination and unusual and magnificent sense of beauty often prompted mixed responses in his day. Interpretations of Gaudi by the artistic community of the early 1900s frequently vacillated between "genius" and "insane". By his demise, however, Gaudi had gained widespread respect as an artistically gifted individual. The Barcelona native was an architect by profession with the vision of an artist - construction and design not only was a reflection of function but also a moving and dramatic artistic creation. 

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