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Self-managed abortion in the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

Self-managed abortion in the UK

...health professionals and those seeking abortion to be aware of. The factors identified relate to how someone self-managing abortion might be best supported; as well as the importance of effective communication about pain and other effects of the medications that might be experienced in the course of medical abortion. A key advantage of self-managed abortion is that it...
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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...public goods and services their citizens need. Environmental policy: Supporters of EU membership identify a range of areas, from carbon limitations to biodiversity protection, in which common policies have made the UK greener. Opponents identify comparably significant ways in which EU policies do environmental damage, deliberately or inadvertently. Agricultural policy:...
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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...public service. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 in a stunning come-from-behind victory. After trailing in public opinion polls by 36 points, Senator Mitchell rallied to win the election, receiving...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...health, demography, regime type and (yes) the power of the state. The days when one could claim that the situation of women is a “small bore” issue in foreign policy should now be emphatically over. When Clinton was secretary of state, the global empowerment of women was enshrined as a key foreign policy objective. While there were failures as well as successes in...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...public, private, individuals, groups), fields (e.g. social, political, health, environment) and levels (e.g. local, national, global). Difference refers to interested parties coming to development management with their own histories that diverge on the basis of their interests, values, agendas, cultures and access to power. Emergence refers to the way development...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Election days: 1880 - Squabbling peers
History & The Arts

Election days: 1880 - Squabbling peers

...public. Lord Provost Boyd and the Magistrates of Edinburgh attended in their official robes. The arrangements were under charge of the Bailie of Holyrood. [...] The roll of Peers was then called. When the name of the Earl of Crawfurd was called, the Earl of Sutherland protested against the title of any Earl being called before his own. When the name of the Earl of Mar was...
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
History & The Arts

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

...publication. In the Georgian era of 1821, opium – in the form of laudanum - was as ubiquitous as ale or spirits. Thomas De Quincey was the first writer to openly celebrate its effects, not purely in medicinal terms but as an aide to enjoying music and books. This is a book about addiction but it is also about the power of memories. Whilst De Quincey walked a thin line...
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