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Real Estate & Property Situation in Pakistan

Pakistan is facing a real property crisis. There is an estimated shortage of more than one million houses which is likely to grow by 0.6 million every year. But mercifully the situation is not as bad as in India where the housing shortage is a staggering 40 million houses. But it makes an interesting...
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International business to business payments

With the huge amounts of business transacted online, there is a growing concern amongst businesses about managing payments. Business to business (B2B) payments at the international level are a major concern since the amounts tend to be larger and the charges are appreciable. This results in some loss in profits, which makes global commerce...
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US Families Cutting Back On Health Care

Is Cost Cutting, also Cutting America’s Health? According to a study by the Kaiser Foundation, more than half of the people polled replied that they did cut back on health care because of cost concerns. Here’s what they (53%) did instead : Over The Counter Medications Instead of Prescription Medication Home Remedies Skipped Dental Care...
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Clairaudio – The Sixth Sense That Whispers

Do You Ever Hear What You Cannot Be Hearing? You May Have The Clairaudio Gift. Clairaudio means clear hearing. While clairvoyance means clear seeing, and often indicates the gift that some have to actually visualize events, I believe that clearaudio may be much more common. I also think that most people who are gifted...
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The Ethics of Octuplets

Is Eight Enough? I am the parent of twins, so I am writing this article from the perspective of a parent of multiples. Of course, twins happen in nature. Mine did. Even, in rare cases, triplets happen in nature. We do have two arms, and two breasts, and it seems like our bodies were...
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International Trade and its Barriers

First we will discuss the concept of trading. The trading concept is centered on the simple activity of the exchange of good or services or both. These exchanges may be the ones that simply take place between two parties within the country or between two different countries. The simple trade, which takes place between...
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Novel Stirs an Atlantic Breeze

Rhode Island’s homegrown Women’s Fiction writer, Eva Pasco, stirs a breeze with her debut novel, Underlying Notes, navigating the reader past Rhode Island’s affluent coastal communities, prominent landmarks, cherished institutions, and olive oil spills of the underworld.  Carla Matteo copes with life by “taking to the bottle”–glass goddesses funneling perfume!  During a mid-life renaissance...
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Helping India’s Untouchables with Lead Forward

I think that many of us, in the western world, think that India’s caste system was something we learned about in social studies a long time ago. But we assumed that this system had been eliminated, in the same way that White-Only drinking fountains are an embarrassing part of US history that no longer...
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