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Engineering technology and technological determinism
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Technology and the Social Role of Technologists
Technology is essential to the human condition. Our human species is now totally dependent upon it. Without technology we would not be able to sustain the present human population on this planet. Moreover, without technology, the human population could never even have grown to anything near its current level of some 6 billion people. Technology is the force that lifts us up out of the mud and offers comfortable alternatives to lives that otherwise might be brutish, nasty, and short. Only with technology do we have the means for continued ...
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OPIUM WAR LEGACY
Transcript from: ABC Good Morning America
; ...actually the catalyst of the first Opium War. He in 1839 thought he was following...Party. He dumped 3 million pounds of opium, foreign-owned opium, into the China Sea, triggering the first of the Opium Wars. But as a result of that, nobody...
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Smoking out the truth: Hong Kong. (China invokes memories of the opium war with the UK to win public support)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...is intent on reliving the opium war of 1839-42. Last week...nearly 3m pounds of British opium in 1839, an anniversary...was not the continuance of opium exports, or the ceding...version of the battles of the war is also slightly dubious...
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Opium War TV Series to Be Broadcast Nationwide
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; A 26-part TV series about Opium War (1840-1842) will be broadcast first...television stations across the country. The Opium War, launched by the British government in June, 1840 to protect the British opium trade in China, resulted in the signing...
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TIME TRIP.(first Opium War)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
; ...drug trade was the cause of a war involving an English-speaking...fought with China, was the first Opium War (1839-1842). * Opium, like heroin, is a product of...merchants had been illegally importing opium into China since the early 1800s...
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Opium War Hero's Birthday Celebrated
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...Historians now agree that opium smuggling was carried out by...publicly burned the stocks of opium that the British merchants had...colonialists, who decided to launch a war against the Qing Dynasty in...The war was later called the "Opium War" by historians and is regarded...
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Ending an Opium War; Poppies and Afghan Recovery Can Both Bloom
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...fighting a war to eradicate opium from Afghanistan. Allegedly...might history not judge this war to be every bit as destructive and wasteful as the original Opium Wars? Of course it isn't fashionable...the moment, Afghanistan's opium exports account for somewhere...
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Video Game "Opium War" to Go on Sale
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; The video game of "Opium War" will hit Chinese and overseas markets...Research Center of Qinghua University. "Opium War" is aimed at teaching players about China's humiliating history of the Opium War and inspiring patriotic spirit among...
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Opium War Heroes Memorialized by East China Province
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...over 5,000 officers and men who died in the Opium War (18401842) in east China's Zhejiang province...considered by historians as the bloodiest of the Opium War, launched by Britain to protect its opium trade in China. The fight was launched by...
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Role of mullah in opium war
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...Times 04-22-2008 Role of mullah in opium war Edition: Main/Lifestyle Section...create awareness on the need to stop opium production in Afghanistan. The event...play in stopping the production of opium. Syed Hamid said in 1998, the United...
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Concert to Commemorate Opium War Hero
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...Thursday evening to commemorate the Opium War (1840-1842) hero Lin Zexu. The...appointed imperial envoy to stamp out the opium trade being conducted by British merchants...confiscated over 20,200 chests of opium, or nearly 1.2 million kg, which...
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