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- 2641: Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
- ... Addiction 87: 1999-1204, 1992. Alcohol Advisory Council, The Role of Alcohol in Road Crashes. ALAC Wellington, 1995. United States General Accounting Office Drinking Age Laws: An Evaluation Synthesis of Their Impact on Highway Safety. Washington, DC: US Superintendent of Documents, 1987. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1995 Youth Fatal Crash and Alcohol Facts. U.S. Department of Transportation, 1997. Edwards G, etal, Alcohol and the Public Good. WHO Europe, Oxford ...
- 2642: Life On Michelangelo
- ... Peter's became the symbol of authority, as well as the model, for domes all over the Western world; the majority of state capitol buildings in the U.S., as well as the Capitol in Washington, D.C., are derived from it.
- 2643: Mother Teresa
- ... the help of many contributions. Mother Teresa traveled to the United States in 1960 and spoke in Las Vegas, Nevada. There, she received hundreds of donations for her work. Mother Teresa also traveled to Illinois, Washington DC, and New York collecting donations and meeting many people along the way. After Mother Teresa left the United States, she journeyed to England, Germany, and Rome. This trip gave many new ideas to Mother ...
- 2644: Saddam Hussein
- ... sent thousands of troops to this area, fearing another Iraqi attack. Finally in November of 1994, Hussein formally recognized the independence and boundaries of Kuwait. Hussein has been closely watched from 1996 until today. The Washington Post learned that an anti-Saddam operation by the CIA has cost $100 million dollars without reaching its goal of helping Iraqi resisters overthrow Saddam. The CIA reports that Iraqi armies are half as strong ...
- 2645: Gun Control-Forfeiting Our Rights
- ... backyard production, conventional black powder is simple to manufacture (Hardy 44). Apparently, illegal gun production is already common. A 1986 federal government study found that one-fifth of the guns seized by the police in Washington, D.C., were homemade. Of course, homemade guns cannot win target-shooting contests, but they suffice for robbery purposes. Furthermore, the price of bootleg guns may even be lower than the price of the quality ...
- 2646: Is the US Policy on Drug Prohibition Effective?
- ... offenders (Wink). The police, therefore, most work to find these 35 million "criminals," thereby exhausting their resources. Also, in major urban centers, the number of drug offences brought to trial are outstanding. For example, in Washington in 1994, 52% of all indictments were drug related as opposed to 13% in 1981 (Evans and Berent, eds. 21). In addition to this child and teen drug use has been escalating since 1992. (Teens ...
- 2647: Violent Crimes Involving Guns
- ... controlling people. To extend gun controls would make the nation better for criminals and worse for the rest of us. Works Cited U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Lifetime Likelihood of Victimization," BJS Technical Report,Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, March 1987. Gary Kleck, Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), p. 203. Gary Kleck, "Lifesaving Benefits to Use of Weapons for Self ...
- 2648: Gun Control and Why People Think It Is Unfair
- ... murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington,D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition gun control has been seen as necessary because of the violence by criminals using guns. Gun control is wrapped in a series of ...
- 2649: The Rodney King Case
- ... saw first hand the damage Los Angeles suffered because of this unfortunate incident. I just hope and pray that this will never happen again. Works Cited Cannon, Lou. More Than Met the Eye on Videotape. Washington post.com. 1-11. 26 July 1999. Eastman, Jennifer. Los Angeles Riots. Great Events From History. rev. ed. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem P, 1997. 1259-60. Evans, Colin. Los Angeles Police Officers Trials ...
- 2650: The Seat Belt Law
- ... bill would attempt to get more people to buckle up, save lives and prevent injuries, thereby reducing medical expenses for all. If an increase in seatbelt use occurs, it would help to generate money from Washington for highway safety and repair funds. In addition, children under the age of four would be required to be in a child restraint seat that has met federal standards. If there were more passengers in ...
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