International Labour Organization
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International Labour Organization (ILO) A specialized agency of the
UN since 1949, originally set up in 1919 as an agency of the
League of Nations to improve labour and living conditions throughout the world, by working towards an international code of labour law and practice. Its aim was to provide an international forum for labour demands and to recommend to governments constitutional means to answer these, through law and conciliation. It became increasingly concerned with
human rights. One of its priorities was an effort to reduce child labour in less-developed countries, which affected an estimated 250 million children by 2000. It also provided technical assistance to developing nations. It was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1960.
http://www.ilo.org
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Idiosyncratic Iapetus: Saturnian moon puts a time stamp on the outer solar system.(Cover story)
Magazine article from: Science News; 8/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; Iapetus, the third-largest and second-farthest...spherical nor ellipsoidal, as most moons are, Iapetus looks like a walnut, with a bulging waistline...cracked the mystery of this walnut moon. Iapetus' odd shape and isolated location, they...
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Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows Bulging Waistline.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 1/7/2005; 700+ words
; ...Year's Eve flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) show startling...lies almost exactly on the equator of Iapetus, bisects its entire dark hemisphere and...is surprising for such a small body as Iapetus. Mars is nearly five times the size of...
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Cassini Caps off 2004 With Flyby of Icy Moon Iapetus.
News Wire article from: AScribe Science News Service; 12/31/2004; 700+ words
; ...with an encounter of Saturn's ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year's Eve...June 30 of this year. The next close flyby of Iapetus is not until 2007. Iapetus is a world of sharp contrasts. The leading hemisphere...
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All I wanted for Christmas was an answer on Iapetus QED
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/26/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...moves in towards a close encounter with Iapetus, another of Saturn's moons - and one...astronomer after whom Cassini is named - Iapetus vanished from sight, only to re-appear...side of Saturn. Cassini suggested that Iapetus, like our own Moon, keeps the same face...
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Concurrent HP metamorphism on both margins of Iapetus: Ordovician ages for eclogites and garnet pyroxenites from the Seve Nappe Complex, Swedish Caledonides
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...this margin prior to the final closure of Iapetus during the 430-400 Ma Scandian Orogeny...occurred concurrently on opposite sides of Iapetus. We suggest that the HP collision recorded...Laurentia on the other (western) side of Iapetus. If the ages and the tectonostratigraphic...
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Saturn moon Iapetus coated with foreign dust: Study.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 12/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...University have reportedly found foreign dust on Iapetus, Saturn's most bizarre moon. Iapetus is known to have starkly contrasting hemispheres...close fly-by, the scientists assert that Iapetus' darker half, called Cassini Regio, is the...
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Cassini eyes Iapetus.(Astronomy)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/31/2004; 637 words
; ...on Saturn's split-personality moon Iapetus: half being bright, half being dark...astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini discovered Iapetus in 1672. He correctly surmised that the...outer moon, have drifted inward to coat Iapetus' leading edge. Another possibility...
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Saturn's moon Iapetus, the Yin-and-Yang of solar system
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/13/2007; 649 words
; ...Washington, Sept. 13 -- Saturn's moon Iapetus is the Yin and Yang of the solar system...Germany. "Our flight over the surface of Iapetus was like a non-stop free fall, down...This flyby was nearly 100 times closer to Iapetus than Cassini's 2004 flyby, bringing...
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Tar sands on Iapetus. (Space Sciences)
Magazine article from: Science News; 7/22/1989; 586 words
; Tar sands on Iapetus One of the solar system's most unusual...looking moons is Saturn's "two-faced" Iapetus, icy-bright on the side that faces...match for the dark-side spectrum of Iapetus is a mixture of 90 percent clay and 10...
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Moon poses new enigma.(Earth)(Saturn's Moon, Iapetus)
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 3/18/2005; 690 words
; SATURN -- Saturn's moon Iapetus might consider going on a diet. It...Cassini spacecraft when it flew by Iapetus in early January. Images beamed back...ridge is only one of the riddles of Iapetus. Giovanni Cassini, an Italian-French...
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Iapetus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Iapetus Iapetus is the name given to a Pacific-style ocean that existed from the Late...shown in Fig. 1. Earth scientists are now confident of the existence of Iapetus, although the exact timing of its stages of development is more controversial...
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Iapetus Ocean
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
Iapetus Ocean( proto-Atlantic ) The late Precambrian...The oceanic crust and upper mantle of the Iapetus Ocean floor is presumed to have been subducted...orogenic belt, which removed all trace of the Iapetus Ocean, extends all along the border between...
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Baltica
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...Europe) that formed the south-eastern margin of the Iapetus Ocean . During the Caledonian orogenic event, this continental...against N. America and Greenland by subduction of the Iapetus Ocean during the Silurian and Early Devonian .
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faunal provinces
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...Palaeozoic, North America and Europe were separated by the Iapetus ocean. During the Ordovician, only planktonic animals such...The explanation for their distribution is that after the Iapetus ocean closed in the late Palaeozoic it opened again a little...
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Taconic orogeny
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...Humberian. In the south it was caused by the subduction of the western margin of the Iapetus Ocean, leading to the closing of the western basin of the Iapetus and the collision between N. America and the Piedmont microcontinent and the subsidence...
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