FACTOID # 48: Many Americans live alone - the United States leads the world in one person households.
 
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United Nations
The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ...

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Globalization: (10411 words)
Gary Madison's paper, "Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities" is the first in a series of working papers to be circulated by McMaster University's new Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, directed by Dr. William Coleman of McMaster's Department of Political Science.
The Institute focuses not only upon the economic, technological and political changes often thought to be at the core of globalization, but also on the social and cultural changes attendant upon it.
Globalization may have as its effect a certain leveling of cultural differences and, owing to the consumerism it promotes, may make for increasing similarity in lifestyles around the world, but it is difficult to see how this consequence of globalization may not actually have decidedly beneficial effects.
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