Basics

Around the world people give their newborn babies a special name. Some call it “first name", others “christian name” or “given name". Even before the baby is born, both mother and father are going through enormous lists of baby names.

Every year lists are made that contain the most popular names around the globe. Please choose one of the options below to find out what they were in 2005-2006. We have listings for Flanders, the Netherlands, the USA and UK

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Studies have shown that the recreational drug Ecstasy can cause brain damage when used often, but a new study suggests that even a few doses of the illegal substance can alter the brain’s memory system and that the changes may be long-lasting.

“We didn’t expect to find such changes,” said Dr. Maartje De Win, a resident in radiology at the Academic Medicine Center in Amsterdam. She and her colleagues tested the effects of the popular drug on 188 young adults (average age 22) they recruited who said they had intentions of trying Ecstasy but had not done so yet.

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Basic education refers to the whole range of educational activities taking place in various settings (formal, non formal and informal), that aim to meet basic learning needs. According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises primary education (first stage of basic education) and lower secondary education (second stage). In countries (developing countries in particlar), Basic Education often includes also pre-primary education and/or adult litteracy programs.

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