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🔗 Land of hypocrites

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The ordinance, promulgated in 1981 under Zia-ul-Haq, makes it illegal for anyone – young, old, infirm, pregnant, lapsed – to eat, drink or smoke in public and applies across the board to Muslims and non-Muslims

🔗 Evidence that we work our ass off in this country for nothing.

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People living in Cairo work the most number of hours in the world! Follow the link to the UBS site and download the PDF: lots of data. You will find that despite the greatest number of hours, this really buys us nothing. The data was collected via questionnaires administered to people from 14 different professions. The questions is: do people in Cairo report a higher number of working hours or is it true we work more than anyone else?

🔗 اعتصام عمال الحديد والصلب 1989.. النهاية الحزينة لآخر موجة مد عمالي | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر

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عمال الحديد والصلب فكان مطلبهم رفع الحوافز الشهرية ومن أجله قام العمال باعتصامين شهيرين في يوليو وأغسطس 1989. على أثر الثاني تم اقتحام الشركة والتنكيل بالعمال ما بين قتيل واحد وعشرات من المصابين ومئات المعتقلين. ولكي نتعرف على الحدث عن قرب ونتعلم خبراته، علينا أن نرى الصورة في كليتها ونعود سويًا لأصل الموضوع لتتضح لنا الرؤية أكثر.

🔗 NEJM -- Who Has Capacity?

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Alcoholism had cost him his career as a software engineer, his marriage, and the goodwill of his siblings. Now it was threatening to cut his life short. He'd been sober for nearly 6 months and might qualify for placement on the transplant list. But no, Mr. D. told his medical team. Someone else should get the liver, somebody who deserved it more.