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1.The large-scale migration of unskilled and semi-skilled labour, and of professional manpower,

which has taken place in the last two decades has been a reflection of imbalances in the income and employment opportunities and, to some extent, of constraints on the international flow of capital and trade.

2.The men and women throughout the world who think that a living future is preferable to a

dead world of rocks and deserts will have to rise and demand, in tones so loud that they cannot be ignored, that common sense, humanity, and the dictates of that moral law which Mr.

Dulles believes that he respects, should guide our troubled era into that happiness which only its own folly is preventing.

3.

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

AND FOR THESE ENDS

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

HA VE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS.

4.But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demoniac personality, a granite will,

uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and---until toward the end, when drunk with power and success, he overreached himself---an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

5.The humanities would be expendable only if human beings didn’t have to make decisions that

affect their lives and the lives of others; if the human past never existed or had nothing to tell us about the present; if thought processes were irrelevant to the achievement of purpose; if creativity was beyond the human mind and had nothing to do with the joy of living; if human relationships were random aspects of life; if human beings never had to cope with panic or pain, or if they never had to anticipate the connection between cause and effect; if all the mysteries of mind and nature were fully plumbed; and if no special demands arose from the accident of being born a human being instead of a hen or a hog.

6.But the city is also the home of the well-bred English lady who has had to sell the family

estate of 400 years and take meager lodging in Earl’s Court; of the expatriate Hollywood actress living in elegance in a Georgian town house; of the islander from Jamaica who comes seeking a new life and ends up collecting fares on one of London’s red double-decker buses;

and of the farmer’s son who shuns his family’s sheep pastures in the austere lake District in favor of singing rock in a coffeehouse in the West End.

7.The second aspect is the application by all members of society, from the government official

to the ordinary citizen, of the special methods of thought and action that scientists use in their work.

8.Ionizing radiation can change the electronic configuration of an atom or molecule, and thus

the way it interacts with its surroundings.

9. A recent article in the New Yorker magazine compared the discovery of the edible tomato that

came about by early biotechnology with the new "Flavr-Savr" tomato brought about through modern techniques.

10.For environment concern, aluminium is much more superior to fiberglass with its chemical

resins and to steel which rusts.

11.Challenges being addressed by modern environmental biotechnology range from the search

for microbes that will reduce acid rain by removing sulfur from power plant coal to the biological production of biodegradable plastics.