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- 611: Conflicting Goals in Economic Growth
- ... a lot, and that makes people uncertain about what inflation will be in the future. That uncertainty can hinder economic growth in a couple of ways--it adds an inflation risk premium to long-term interest rates and it complicates the planning and contracting by business and labor that are so essential to capital formation. High inflation also hinders economic growth in other ways. For example, because the tax system isn't ...
- 612: Drinking Water Contamination
- ... in these homes, as well as the illnesses in homes served by the same water system but which lacked the sophisticated filters. What the researchers found was as surprising as it was troubling: significantly higher rates of people who did not have the filters became sick compared with those whose water was filtered. The researchers estimated that "35 percent of the reported [gastrointestinal] illnesses among tap water drinkers were water-related ... EPA standard - unchanged since 1942 - of 50 ppb). In humans, skin cancer has long been associated with chronic ingestion of arsenic.[47] Bladder, lung, and other types of cancer have also been observed at elevated rates in populations exposed to arsenic in tap water.[48] In the United States, more than 50 million people drink tap water containing arsenic, mostly at levels below EPA's current standard of 50 ppb. It ... to the type of study design and the small populations studied, both of which decrease the statistical power of a study to detect adverse health effects. Researchers from the University of California recently found increased rates of death from vascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, aortic aneurysms, and other diseases of the arteries, arterioles, and capillaries among Americans living in areas with relatively higher levels of arsenic in their drinking water.[ ...
- 613: Film Review-rainbow Trout
- ... and thematic content. For example, his 2nd feature, Our Twisted Hero', dealt with political allegory, and his 3rd feature, Eternal Empire' opened a new genre of thriller/mystery/ period drama. Director Park's ever-renewing interest in a mosaic film style and subject matter is obvious in Rainbow Trout', as well. First, it is a hybrid-genre film composed of comedy, horror, grotesque humor, and every day life. Secondly, while his ... but he cannot escape the mental agony over his ex-lover, Jung-wha (Sae-wha's sister). On the other hand, it is Tae-ju, living alone and raising hunting dogs, who shows a special interest for Sae-wha. Tae-joo has a persistent eye on Sae-wha as soon as Sae-wha's group arrives. As Tae-joo follows Sae-wha wherever she goes and peeps at her every behavior ... true man. An individual in various webs of human relationships takes this side or that side according to the situation. In what way does an individual react when he faces a situation against his own interest? Here we can see the director's touch.
- 614: IOMEGA CORPORATION: DATA STORA
- ... changes will ease the rise-fall-and-rise-again impression that the company has acquired since its entry into the removable storage market in 1980, thus spurring improved gross profits, consumer confidence, and an increased interest on Wall Street.16 In 1983, Iomega was on top of the Wall Street world. The searing property raised $21.7 million in public offerings due to the interest drawn by IBM PC users who were amazed by Iomegaˇ¦s patented Bernoulli Box technology. The Bernoulli Box used a subsystem with stand-alone disk drives that rest beneath the monitor and provide unlimited data ... on March 31, 1999, the company announced that it retired $40 million in senior subordinated notes that were used to finance Iomegaˇ¦s acquisition of Nomai S.A. in 1998. The notes had carried an interest rate of 12.7% since January 1, 1999.29 While Iomegaˇ¦s executives admit that the company still has work to do to increase its profitability, they are excited about the future and plan ...
- 615: Tobacco
- ... 9). Children prenatally exposed to nicotine consistently score lower in the two subcategories of expressive language and conceptual comprehension. Evidence from studies of human neonates suggests that maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with increased rates of neurobehavioral difficulties. Several studies have linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with childhood inattention, impulsivity, and motor hyperactivity in offspring. Similarly, maternal smoking during pregnancy has been associated with parent-teacher ratings of conduct problems ... Conduct Disorder during the preadolescent or adolescent years than women who did not smoke or smoked only occasionally during pregnancy. These findings support previous work showing that maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with increased rates of preschool and school-age behavior problems and delinquency in the offspring. The relationship between smoking and low birth weight, prematurity, and miscarriage has been well established. The effects of nicotine are seen in every trimester of pregnancy, from increased spontaneous abortions in the first trimester to increased premature delivery rates and decreased birth weights in the final trimester. In 1957, Simpson first noted in an observational study of 7,499 patients that the incidence of premature delivery, as defined by a birth weight less ...
- 616: Education of the Gifted and Talented Student
- ... the necessity of our educational system to meet the needs of such students, and has passed legislation mandating policies to accommodate them. However, a great deal of inequality exists in our special education system. Most interest, attention and concern is geared toward educating the retarded and/or disabled, while neglecting to recognize the equally important needs of our gifted and talented students. I feel that our education system is doing unto ... talented students are highly creative, display original ideas and a colorful imagination. Some demonstrate confidence and leadership qualities. Many seem to have a thirst for knowledge which results in an inquisitive nature and a general interest in many areas. Many of these qualities are generally observed in the gifted and talented child in a consistent pattern in many aspects of life, however apparent or subtle. Still other students exhibit such advanced ... students, and the consistent neglect of their needs has harmful consequences. The extraordinary talents and abilities of many of these students remain undetected in many instances. Some gifted students become horribly bored and completely lost interest in learning due to the repetition of the same materials over and over again, materials that many of them have mastered long ago. Their grades and classroom performance often falls below their potential due ...
- 617: Divorce in the United States
- ... States in 1987, there were 123 divorced persons for every 1,000 married persons; in other terms, the divorced portion equaled about 12 percent of the married portion of the population. When marriage and divorce rates in several countries several factors must be taken into account: the proportion of the population that is of marrying age, the proportion that marry, and the age at marriage. Because people now live longer and ... women remarried. Sixty years earlier, two out of three divorced persons did not remarry. If the divorce rate has risen noticeably, so has the marriage rate. Anthropologists report that many societies have even higher divorce rates than that of the United States. For example, Nigeria would have a divorce rate approaching 100 percent if some married people did not die young. The belief that high divorce rates reduce social organization has not been proved. The social effects of divorce depend on what happens to families that experience it and on the arrangements society makes for them. Divorce can be a devastating ...
- 618: Divorce
- ... Not only for the children and families living through one…or two or three, But for the people growing up in America. The problem is that the message being sent, through Americas increase in divorce rates, is that it is O.K. to make a mistake (which is true for most cases). But when it comes to marriage people should not wait until they are married to realize that mistake. The ... later 45 states did the same, and by 1985 every state had either switched to the No-Fault law or changed their existing laws in some way. The result was a 250% increase in divorce rates from 1960 to 1980 (according to a fifty state survey conducted by the Journal of Marriage and the Family). Also, younger people in the U.S. who are marrying for the first time face roughly ... has to do with the loss of a parent, economical losses, and more life stress from changes in children's living situations, like changing schools, child care, homes, etc. The best way to lower divorce rates is to make it harder to get a divorce, by getting rid of the No-Fault divorce law. That way people will be truly making a commitment when they decide to get married. Also, ...
- 619: Meth Labs
- ... the prevalence of abuse is virtually the same for country and city dweller alike. Less attention has been focused on drug use in rural than urban areas despite evidence that metro and nonmetro differences in rates of substance abuse have been declining. Between 1975 and 1991, the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) collected drug, alcohol, and tobacco use data from individuals age 12 and older living in U.S ... large and small metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Lifetime-use patterns of marijuana, hallucinogens, inhalants, and cocaine by age group for the three population density areas are compared. In general, nonmetropolitan prevalence rates for the four drugs were slightly lower than those for the two metropolitan population density areas, however, the rates appear to be converging. Lifetime substance use was highest for those age 18 to 34. (Moxley,1992 p.119) A clandestine laboratory is a laboratory used for the primary purpose of illegally manufacturing controlled ...
- 620: Alcatraz
- ... request of Warden Swope. "Many times the prison was almost shut down, but I never thought the government would actually shut this place down. It was the best thing for the country. It lowered crime rates, because it scared the citizens of the U.S. into believing they would go to "The Rock" if they were even remotely bad. They shut it down, Oh God, they shut it down" (2) The ... general Homer Cummings and Director of the Bureau of Prisons, Sanford Bates, produced a legendary prison that seemed both necessary and appropriate to the times. The emergence of persistent assertions about J. Edgar Hoover's interest and influence with regard to Alcatraz cannot be corroborated, but neither have they been completely denied. With the public peace constantly threatened by crime, a response had to be made and Alcatraz was that response ...
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