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- 6531: Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
- ... etal, Alcohol and the Public Good. WHO Europe, Oxford University Press, p138 1994. OMalley P.M. and Wagenaar A.C. Effects of minimum drinking age laws on alcohol related behaviours and traffic crashes among American youth; 1976 -1987. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 52: 478-91, 1991. The Independent (Great Britain) 11/6/98 12 Smith D. I., Bervill TW, Effects on Traffic Safety in Lowering the Drinking Age in ...
- 6532: Gun Control
- ... is obvious that access to firearms did not provide extra protection for the citizen. In fact, the number of crime victims who successfully use firearms to defend themselves is quite small. Out of 34,040 American firearms deaths in 1996, only 212 were justifiable homicides by private citizens with firearms. Obviously the ones who used the opportunity to buy guns were the criminals. It is a proven fact that handguns have ...
- 6533: The First Battle Of Bull Run
- ... the same place. On August 29, 1862 the Second Battle of Bull Run was fought and resulted in another Southern victory. General Robert E. Lee defeated Union General McClellan. REFERENCES Civil War.com, 1999 New American History of the Civil War, Bruce Celtan, 19996 World Book Encyclopedia
- 6534: Marijuana
- ... to Marijuana. The most prominent is delta-9- tetrahydrocannibinol. This substance otherwise known as delta-9-THC which causes Marijuana's psychoactive effects. "The effects of Marijuana", according to Leo Hollister, former president of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and current professor at the University of Texas "poses no greater risk that moderate consumption of Alcohol." Harvard Professor Lester Grinspoon in his book, Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine, claims that the drug ...
- 6535: On Line Schemes
- ... and early 1990s gave birth to a torrent of commercial entrants into cyberspace, with the way led by Compuserve and then Prodigy and America Online. By the end of this year, an estimated four million American households will be online with these commercial services, which are the three largest such enterprises in the U.S. Additionally, hundreds of smaller companies have emerged to provide bulletin board services and local access to ...
- 6536: Capital Punishment
- ... death penalty and support for it remained as prevalent in the Middle Ages as any time in history. Most of the crimes punishable by death were religious crimes such as heresy, sacrilege, and atheism. The American colonies punished crimes like witchcraft, murder, and rape with the death penalty. The debates over capital punishment did not really begin until the Enlightenment of the 1700s (Winters 17.) During this period, people starting ...
- 6537: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- ... Tracing the history of a recovered firearm generally leads to the discovery that it was stolen from a legal owner and that its subsequent pattern of ownership is unknown (Reagan 84).] Even if the entire American gunstock magically vanished, resupply for criminals would be easy. If small handguns were imported in the same physical volume as marijuana, 20 million would enter the country annually. (Current legal demand for new handguns is ...
- 6538: Random Drug Testing
- ... that student, rather the grounds of expelling a student should be incompetence or misbehavior. As editor of this newspaper, I hope that you seriously reconsider your stand on this issue. Random drug tests violate an American citizens right to be secure against unreasonable searches or seizures. The fourth amendment of the United States Constitution states that Unreasonable searches are forbidden. The right of the people to be secure in their ...
- 6539: The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments
- ... products compatible with each other, but rarely could a player put devices by different manufacturers together without great problems and errors. A solution to this problem was needed. So, in 1981, conversations between Japanese and American companies at the NAMMC (National Association of Music Merchants Conference) led to the idea of a standard interface for electronic musical instruments. Six major companies on the edge of the electronic music technology, Kawai, Korg ...
- 6540: Legalization of Drugs
- ... prohibition. Let's assume the war on drugs is given up as the misguided enterprise it is. What will happen? The day after legalization goes into effect, the streets of America will be safer. The American citizens will no longer have to worry for their safety due to the drug dealers in their community. One year after legalization, 1,600 innocent people who would otherwise have been dead at the hands ...
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