Papers 2551-2560 of total 3732 found.
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…remnant of a hominid home base." However, the summary noted that such conclusions were "tentative" and "speculative." (Isaac and Harris 1978:85) In his Scientific American article that year, using the same data, Isaac was much less tentative. "A study…
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…frightening. "It's frightening but is not unusual or dangerous to a child," says Harry Abram, M.D., a neurologist with The Nemours Children's Clinic. Night terrors occur mostly in young children, typically between the ages of 3 to 5 years. Two to 3% of all…
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…dollars can obtain as much marijuana as desired. The bill was passed only with a change in the tax from twenty-five dollars to one dollar. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 went into affect September 1st, 1937 (Marijuana Mayhem, 2003). Harry J. Anslinger…
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…Heritage, p.74). At first, this disease was viewed as a disease of the poor, but later it was linked to poverty that was common in southern Europe. Dr. Harris, a physician from Atlanta, Georgia, first reported pellagra in the United States in March 1902, after…
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…that even if drugs were legalized tomorrow, the practice would continue (Callahan and Anderson). In a March 13, 2001 interview David Harris states, "Racial profiling is not a legal term. It's just a way of describing a set of police tactics. A profile is nothing…
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…live in today. When we have statistics like this article, "Death in the City," by Doug Struck and Hamil R. Harris (Washington Post, 6/29/98), that documented the shocking fact that life expectancy for D.C. men is 10 years below the national average…
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…survey and the Louis Harris poll conducted for the President's Commission in the 1960s, African-American respondents generally evaluated police performance and integrity in more negative terms than Caucasian respondents did. The NORC survey disclosed…
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…). There is a group of consumers who consider CSR in their purchasing decisions (Mohr Webb Harris 2001). 0ver the past few years, socially responsible consumers have been studied in relation to boycott behaviour (e.g. Klein 2003) and cause related marketing (e.g. Polonsky…
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…Chute, Wisconsin, Nov.14, 1908, and died May 2, 1957, (Grolier, 1996) was best known for his attacks on alleged Communist subversion most notably within the administrations of the Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The activities…
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…no possibility for parole. The death penalty violates constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The grotesque killing of Robert Harris by the state of California on April 21,1992, and similar reports of witnesses to hangings…
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