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- 4561: Poverty
- ... small companies. In county colleges have connected to the internet as we approach the end of 1997. If the education is upgraded, people will get more jobs and/or higher paying jobs." In ventura county, School to career programs and the business partnerships they have developed are thriving at two Ventura County community colleges". Said Charles Weis Oxnard Star reporter on Tuesday 11 April 2000. Another news on Tuesday article "Welfare ...
- 4562: The 50s Was A Time of Change
- ... and or pneumonia. Today we all have at least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. In the 50s opportunities were very scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment. Important world issues were very different in the 50s, than now in the 90 ...
- 4563: Secondhand Smoking
- ... affect either restaurant or bar sales (Glanz/Smith). Lois Biener, Ph.D., from the University of Massachusetts Center for Survey Research in Boston, and Michael Siegel, M.D. M.P.H., from the Boston University School of Public Health, did a survey project in Massachusetts which confirmed the Glanz/Smith study. They observed almost 3,000 Massachusetts adults for a 10 month span of time and concluded that, such policies [non ...
- 4564: Smoking On The Body
- ... 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 ...
- 4565: Social Impact Of The Internet
- ... the case in Lebanon, how many Internet cafes are there? How many network gaming centers are there? I used to work in an Internet cafι as an Internet assistant, and I saw what the young school kids were accessing without any grain of shame on their faces! In my experience as an Internet assistant, their number one visited sites are pornographic sites, which are more readily available than any other site ...
- 4566: Gender Differences
- ... pressured to having sex on a Saturday night are called "sluts" and "hoes" on Monday morning. The boys, or the "studs", who coaxed them into sex at the parties avoid them in the halls at school. Also, our society doesn't have clearly defined and universally accepted rules about sexuality. We live in a pluralistic culture with contradictory sexual paradigms. We hear diverse messages from our families, our churches, our schools ...
- 4567: Education of the Gifted and Talented Student
- ... the required curriculum at a faster [more appropriate] pace" (Heward, 1996, p. 564). Acceleration is implemented through a variety of methods. According to Heward, the many acceleration options include "...grade skipping, dual enrollment in high school and college, early admission to college, subject acceleration and advanced placement testing," to name a few. Each method allows both, teacher and student to find the most appropriate and comfortable level of learning. The benefits ...
- 4568: Alternative Medicine
- ... employees enrolled in Kaiser-Permanente and Health Net HMOs. The administrative agency that provides the programs is the Self Insured Schools of California, (SISC), which is a cost-containment consortium of hundreds of California school districts. Currently, SISC provides coverage for more than thirty-five thousand employees and their eligible dependents. In addition to medical coverages, the office also provides life, vision, dental, prescription and mental and nervous policies. The ...
- 4569: Animal Testing
- ... percent of the sample group differed from test to test because the dogs injected with Strontium 90 retain more of the radioactive substance than dogs forced to inhale it. Also, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine a group of experimenters put fifty beagles in wooden boxes and tested them with different levels of radiation by x-rays. Twenty-one of the dogs died within the first two weeks. The ...
- 4570: Awakenings And Tourette
- ... opportunity to see health-care professionals skilled in neurobehavioral disorders rather than classifying what they have as 'mental illness,' which limits benefits and access to providers. We have to make reasonable accommodations for them in school and at work. If you meet a person with Tourette's syndrome, it is recommended that you think of him/her as if he/she has a bad stutter. Simply wait for the tics to ...
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