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    WORLD ENEMIES OF FREE SPEACH AND THE INTERNET
    November 7, 2006 - World

    A list of 13 'enemies of the Internet' has been released by the human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The list consists of countries that the RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the Internet. Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Maldives have all been taken off it. The complete list of blacklisted states is: Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

    CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING MACHINE
    November 7, 1876 - U.S.A.

    A patent for the first U.S. cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City (No. 184,207). The Hook machine was invented in 1872, but did not come into practical commercial use until 1882. It produced a continuous cigarette of indefinite length, to be cut into individual cigarettes. Tobacco was fed onto a ribbon of paper. The paper passed over a gummed wheel as it was drawn off its spool. According revenue collection figures, the number of cigarettes manufactured in 1875 was only 50 million.

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Personality is the epitome of your beauty, can be credited with more elevated platform with the use of contact lenses.

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Are you handsome or beautiful and carrying a modest personality? Or if you are diseased with your monotonous, worn out spectacles? Then your right choice should be, contact lenses.

Just think, you are twenty years old and have joined a party in your friend's apartment. Suddenly while you are celebrating the ceremony, a child steps forward and addressed you "How are you UNCLE or AUNT"? from that very moment all the mirth, you have acquired or enjoying being an important part in this party will eventually muddled by the very word "UNCLE or AUNT". This is not fake but the evolution of real truth, happens in someone's life, who usually prefer to wear heavy eye-glasses.

Wearing glasses is not harmful but what is detrimental is that it to some extent drags your personality downward from where there is no return. So if you are not willing to staple yourself with "uncle" or "aunt"- what you need is to do is to change your spectacle with contact lens. It is easy to install and more comfortable to uninstall. Once you place it for a day it will stay in its exact place until your command of uninstall. It will give your eyes a more ease and you feel better, than those dandy spectacles.

The installation of contact lenses will make you to see better and you can perform more, what ever you task you grasp, with a reliability and comfort. You can use the contact lenses which have different color complexions, simply according to your choice to elevate your own personality. Contact lenses strengthen the protection layer in your eyes and reflects the detrimental UV rays or the blue rays of the sun. UV rays generally cause damage the portion of cataract of your eyes and thus make hindrance from making you blind forever.

When compared to glasses, contact lenses are less impacted by wet and damp weather and they do never steam up, and thus provide a panoramic field of vision. In doing so give you better protection for your eyes and the best to adieu tensions of keeping, rubbing, breaking and the most vital obscure or blurred transparency of spectacles.

Contact lenses have some surgical function as well. But the daily, "plug and play" contact lenses are ample in the market in cheap rates and thus in everyone's reach. It has been estimated that about 125 million people use contact lenses through out the globe. Survey reveals. In United States 28 to 38 million peoples have selected contact lenses as a mandatory in place of spectacles.

Japan is supposed to be the land of about 13 million peoples who prefer contact lenses. Netherlands and Germany also have the ample customers of lens. The reason in all these cases are same comfort and all benefits which an ordinary glass can never offer. So are you still wait for "UNCLE" or "AUNT" or be a beautiful girl?

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