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By the start of the game, tens of thousands of young fans were on the square, many of them drunk and agitated.
Sitting in the square became more than an act of defiance: in Spain, Greece, and in the Occupy Movements of the United States and the United Kingdom, the occupied zones became places where a new democratic society could be practiced, sometimes through the time-consuming General Assembly process of group decision-making.
At the Mayak Industrial Reprocessing Complex in Russia’s southern Urals, a storage tank holding nitrate acetate salts exploded in 1957, releasing a massive amount of radioactive material over 20,000 square kilometers, forcing the evacuation of 272,000 people.
This does not square with the global vilification of Israel that is drowning out legitimate criticism.
The modern information ecosystem is like a Rubik’s Cube, where a different move is required to “solve” each individual square.
With a population of about 600,000 on territory covering roughly 102,700 square miles (266,000 square kilometers), Western Sahara, a Spanish colony until 1975, is the largest of 17 non-self-governing territories listed by the United Nations as having not reached final political status.
The result has been a clear case of collective punishment in one of the most densely populated places on earth, with 3,823 persons per square kilometer.
So how should we square the policy circle?
NATO is trying to square the circle of defense, deterrence, and arms control, but, thus far, its members’ conflicting positions on the role of nuclear weapons have not been reconciled.
The young Ukrainians who protested on Maidan square – not against Russia, but against a corrupt elite that was robbing their country of its European future – must be supported.
The real puzzle, then, is to square rising global productivity growth with declining real interest rates.
It was not quite the equivalent of the final match between Italy and France in 2006, when virtually every small Italian town turned out to watch on the main square; but Americans all over the country spent the month ducking out of work and into sports bars.
Empty words from St. Petersburg, Brussels, or UN headquarters will not suffice, nor will a mere ceasefire, as that would simply return the area to square one.
The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.
Mali and the Islamic ReformationPARIS – Mali is a landlocked West African country of 15 million people, covering 1,240,000 square kilometers (478,800 square miles), three-quarters of it desert.
It is the smallest North African country, covering 163,000 square kilometers – more or less twice the size of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg – and containing a population of 10.5 million.
Moreover, nagana limits cattle rearing in ten million square kilometers of Africa.
But this huge resource is spread out over 26,000 square kilometers and lies under 1,000 meters of water.
In short, the draft constitution is an attempt to square a circle.
They often now live in homes where 25 people live in a space of 40 square meters.
The operative view in central-banking circles has been that the so-called “wealth effect” – when asset appreciation spurs real economic activity – would square the circle for a lagging post-crisis recovery.
The BMI is calculated by dividing a person’s body weight in kilograms by the square of his height in meters (kg/m2).
The article uses the reference point of “37,000 becquerels per square meter, the level at which zones were considered contaminated at Chernobyl,” but fails to mention that this boundary is for the most peripheral of the Chernobyl-contaminated zones and considered habitable.
We may be back to square one insofar as the Duma is concerned.
Climate change is not the first daunting challenge our country – among the world’s most biodiverse countries per square meter – has had to overcome to preserve its natural beauty.
Since September, we have retaken 700 square kilometers of territory.
Every year, we lose 14.6 million hectares (56,000 square miles) of forests – an area almost four times the area of Switzerland.
Information released by the government of Brazil indicates that deforestation of the irreplaceable forests of the Amazon, due to factors such as agricultural conversion, reached 2.6 million hectares (roughly 10,000 square miles) in the past year, bringing the total deforested area of the Amazon to 17%.
For example, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Bank have helped Brazil’s government kick-start an initiative that established over 17 million hectares (69,000 square miles) of new forest-protected areas such as national parks.
Since the leaders first met in 1999, 3.5 million hectares (more than 13,000 square miles) of new protected areas have been established in the Congo Basin.
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