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Floods and droughts have been scourges from ancient times, yet the frequency, size, and economic impact of these disasters has grown in recent years.
Instead, it has clung to the view that the government is the main source of soft power, promoting ancient cultural icons that it thinks might have global appeal, often using the tools of propaganda.
In the ancient world, people made often-bloody offeringsto divinities, whom they believed would reward them with, say, good harvests or protection from evil.
The result has been a de facto "imperial presidency," with Mubarak likened to the god-king Pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
He accelerated efforts to eliminate the world’s most dangerous ancient scourge, malaria, by naming a special adviser on the disease, and by forging innovative partnerships within the UN system that have brought together private industry, foundations, and non-governmental organizations.
India today sees that the wider world, particularly the West, regards it with growing respect, not only for the country’s performance, but also for its essence – a young country and that is also an ancient civilization.
Nourishing Cities with NatureBOSTON – Ever since the ancient Greek poet Theocritus wrote his pastoral idylls romanticizing rural life, people have been pondering how to build cities that are in concert with their natural surroundings.
The Continuing Mystery of Life’s Building BlocksGARRISON, NEW YORK – Imagine for a moment that you have come across a trove of marvelous devices left by an ancient civilization.
Will that bit of ancient wisdom now hold for the United States and Japan?
The Old Testament tells how work on the tower in Shinar, in ancient Babylon, was disrupted because man aspired to reach the heavens and divinity.
Armchair strategists in faraway countries are deluding themselves if they think attempts to impose neat new borders on these ancient lands would not founder against modern reality.
Indian nationalism has therefore always been the nationalism of an idea – the idea of one land embracing many, a land emerging from an ancient civilization, united by a shared history and sustained by a pluralist political system.
In the ancient world, Athenians identified with their city’s democratic ethos, while Spartans prided themselves on their city’s reputation for military discipline and strength.
To the west, in Pakistan, one can travel on the Makran coast along a road built with Chinese assistance, eventually coming to the ancient fishing port of Gwadar, with its natural deep-water harbor.
But, at the inauguration of a Mumbai hospital in October 2014, he claimed that the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh was proof of ancient India’s knowledge of plastic surgery.
The ancient epic the Mahabharata, he then declared, confirmed that, “people then were aware of genetic science.”
There is also evidence in ancient texts of rhinoplasty operations.
The underlying message is that ancient India had all the answers, and thus that traditional and indigenous beliefs and practices must be fundamentally superior to imported modern ideas and lifestyles.
The obscurantist and atavistic state that the BJP wants to create would look nothing like the one that made India the scientific superpower of the ancient age.
Such a show of force is an ancient, traditional Chinese political technique.
Since the attack on the Paradise hotel, Mombasa has not reverted to its ancient identity of Mvita, the Isle of War, because only a single elephant, the US, with its protégé, Israel, exists.
Zinedine Zidane may be pondering that bit of ancient Greek wisdom today.
Li concluded his statement with the message, delivered via three lines by two canonical Chinese poets from the ancient Tang and Song dynasties, that his home was where he felt safe.
Darwin’s theory is further used to support the belief that ancient humans – Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, and Denisova – did not mix.
But we now know that modern humans are chimeras of these three ancient humans.
Research on the human leukocyte antigen genes, which are involved in the human immune response, shows that such a common ancestor could not have existed; this group of genes derives from those of all three known ancient humans.
The ancient Greeks had schools of rhetoric to hone their skills for the assembly.
The European Union flags that have flown on all Georgian public buildings since then signal a natural attachment, as old as the history of a country that, for the ancient Greeks, was an integral part of the world as it was then known.
Like the ancient Greeks’ Hydra, Georgia’s political elite never ceases to die and be reborn.
The success to date of the polio eradication program - clearing a huge swathe of the earth of an ancient scourge - demonstrates what can be achieved when simple technology is used effectively.
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