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The Federation was formed on the 12 August 2161, the successor to the Coalition of Planets. The initial four member states - United Earth, Confederacy of Vulcan, Andorian Empire and Tellar - were quickly joined by numerous other worlds to form one of the largest states in the galaxy.
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[S]uch shoddy treatment of the Federation's fundamental law is not limited to Starfleet's past. Consider one particular case from the modern era. The ship is Starfleet's newly commissioned flagship, the Enterprise NCC-1701-D, Captain Jean-Luc Picard commanding. The star date is 42695.3, the location the tectonically unstable fourth planet of the Secundi Drelma system, a world about to be torn apart by volcanic action. The senior officers of the Enterprise all agree that helping the planet's inhabitants would constitute a violation of the Prime Directive. And so it would.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 4, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has published new data indicating the enormity of the diabetes epidemic. Data published today in the Federation's Diabetes Atlas show that the disease now affects a staggering 246 million people worldwide, with 46% of all those affected in the 40-59 age group. Previous figures underestimated the scope of the problem, while even the most pessimistic predictions fell short of the current figure. The new data predict that the total number of people living with diabetes will skyrocket to 380 million within twenty years if nothing is done.
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For more than 100 years, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, founded on 21 May 1904 in Paris and better known as FIFA, has continued to provide the essential leadership role to the international football family. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, the eighth FIFA President, Joseph S. Blatter guides the organisation today with a commitment to the evolution of FIFA as a modern and dynamic association. The basis of the world's football family is formed by FIFA's members. From the founding seven, the family has today grown to 208 affiliated football associations... organised into six confederations spanning the globe.
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The Learning Federation will support pre-competitive, platform neutral, basic and applied research. This will include the development and assessment of prototype, next-generation learning environments that will be tested with large numbers of students and teachers. It will fund world-class interdisciplinary teams that have sufficient size, longevity, and resources to achieve major advances. The Digital Opportunity Investment Trust has been proposed as an additional funding source that would be financed by revenues earned from investing $18 billion received from the mandated FCC auctions of the radio spectrum.
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The legislative branch is composed of the Federation Council, which is composed of one councillors from every Member. There is no limit as to how many terms a person may serve as councillor. T'Latrek of Vulcan, for instance, served on the Federation Council for nearly a century. Each individual Member determines how its councillors will be determined; the First Minister of Bajor, for instance, nominates that world's councillor and the Chamber of Ministers ratifies him or her, while the electorates of many other Members elect their councillors directly.
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