.... high winds and dust storms, little or no rainfall, and summer temperatures as high as 120øF. "Consequently, arable land amounts to less than 9% of total acreage."1 Soil deficiencies and the intense heat and sunlight allow continued cultivation only by expensive underground pipe-fed irrigation or by hydroponics. Ordinary irrigation under these conditions results in gradually increasing soil salinity. this phenomenon has been the cause of the estimated 1% annual decrease in arable land for the region as a whole. Hence, development of traditional agriculture is severely restricted. 1El Mallakh, Ragaei (Kuwait, Trade and Investment. Boulder, Westview Press Inc .....

.... who conquered the peninsula and occupied it for extended periods. These added ethnologic elements include the Romans, a Mediterranean people, and the Suevi, Vandals, and Visigoths, Teutonic peoples. Semitic elements are also present. Population Characteristics The population of Spain at the 1991 census was 38,872,268. The estimate for 1995 is 39,276,000, giving the country an overall density of about 202 per sq mi. Spain is increasingly urban, with more than 80 percent of the population in towns and cities. Principal Cities The capital and largest city is Madrid (population, greater city, 1991, 3,010,492), also the capital of Madrid autonomous region .....

.... such as welfare and universal healthcare, and our profound respect for law and authority. These establishments make Canada a separate nation from the USA. Economically, it will be examined how Canada has become a victim to Americanization through the purchase of Canada with our own money, the shocking statistics of Canada's foreign ownership, and the final payment for our country, free trade. All in all we have our own government, our own flag, our own anthem; but are we really Canadian or a not quite United State of America? In Canada, strong government involvement plays an immense role in determining the destiny of its people for the good of the .....

.... in a better and safer village. Umbricius feels that the city does not provide everyone with equal opportunities when he complains that the city does not reward him for his honesty and labor. In addition, he implies that normal people like himself have no chance of surviving living in the city as he says that he will "have less today than yesterday" and by tomorrow "that will have dwindled still more" (Beatty, p. 222). He is implying that vice is rewarded as a result of social outrages while the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. According to Juvenal, "men do not easily rise whose poverty hinders their merit" (Beatty, p. 225). Juvenal goes on to .....

.... in the south and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the north. The capital and largest city of South Korea is Seoul. In contrast to North Korea, South Korea is relatively poor in mineral resources. The principal resources are coal (mostly anthracite), iron ore, and graphite. Other minerals include gold, silver, copper, lead, tungsten, zinc, and uranium. Reserves of natural gas have been discovered offshore. These minute resources are not as depended upon by the people of South Korea as in the North. The north is heavy in mining these resources because they have a large surplus of them, and the north is not; they have moved on and found other ec .....

.... China was a little under a billion. That is why in 1972 the Chinese government decided to implant the "wan xi shao" family planning program. This program allowed families to have no more than two children. By the late seventies apparently the Chinese population was still growing. Thus in 1979 the government formed a new policy that allowed families to have no more than one child. Because of this program it is known that women who give birth to daughters are abused by their husbands for not having a boy. One of the problems with such a program is that it is difficult to enforce. This is why the government provides positive economic incentives to families, .....

.... nation. After the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal the decolonisation process spread from Portugal’s African Colonies to East Timor. During this time native political parties emerged with the two most popular being Fretilin (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor) and the UDT (Timorese Democratic Party). After a time of political awakening the two parties during January to May 1975 formed a coalition. While on the border of East Timor, Indonesia looking on saw the emerging colony and sought to cleanse and destabilise the area with outcomes designed in favor of Indonesia. While still in that year only a few months later in August the situation .....

.... 600 Funan had lost its power and influence, and a new kingdom had risen. The Chenla had arisen north of Funan. In the 700’s the kingdom of Chenla had broke up. Between the 800’s and the 1400’s the kingdom of Khmer had risen. The Khmer’s capital was Angkor. They built hundreds of beautiful stone temples at Angkor and in other areas elsewhere in the empire. They also built hospitals, irrigation canals, reservoirs, and roads. Between the 800’s and 1400’s, the Khmer controlled a great Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Cambodia. The Khmer empire reached its peak during the 1100’s. It took over much of the land that is now Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wars with the Thai we .....