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- 881: Artificial Turf: A Dangerous Playing Surface
- ... of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine examined more than two dozen scientific journals to compare ligamentous football injuries. Among them: Journal of Sports Medicine, Clinical Orthopedics, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and others. He was motivated, he said, "because there is a lot of anecdotal evidence, but no one's really searched the literature to see if it's true. There is definitely an increase in ligamentous injuries on artificial turf." Financial Downfalls of Astroturf Fields AstroTurf has generally failed to prove itself any ...
- 882: Nature vs. Nurture
- ... 1981) conducted a review of 111 studies in the area of familial resemblance's in measured intelligence. The purpose of the review is to provide a comprehensive summary of the literature on the IQ correlation's between relatives. In general the review reported that the higher the proportion of genes two family members have in common the higher the average correlation ... and McGue. (1981). Burk's (1928) study indicates that the maximum contribution of the best home environment to intelligence is about 20 points and that the least cultured kind of American home environment may depress the IQ by as much as 20 points. Bradly and Caldwell (1976) conducted research regarding infants early home environment as related to the children's mental ...
- 883: The Cybernetic Plot of Ulysses
- ... Cybernetic Plot of Ulysses A paper delivered at the CALIFORNIA JOYCE conference (6/30/93) Good afternoon. To quote the opening of Norbert Wiener's address on Cybernetics to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in March of 1950, The word cybernetics has been taken from the Greek word kubernitiz (ky-ber-NEE-tis) meaning steersman. It has been invented because there is not in the literature any adequate term describing the general study of communication and the related study of control in both machines and in living beings. In this paper, I mean by cybernetics those ...
- 884: Minimum Drinking Age - 1998
- ... the minimum drinking age was lowered there was a 100% increase in crash fatalities among youthful drivers with a blood alcohol level of 80 mg or more. 12 Comments The literature on the negative effects of lowering the drinking age is extremely convincing. Lowering the minimum drinking age to 18 years will not only have a detrimental effect on the health ... Good. WHO Europe, Oxford University Press, p138 1994. O’Malley 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 ...
- 885: Abortion: Life or Death Who Chooses?
- ... the rapist, for treatment of venereal disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and "Adult Movies" and television programmes which encourage crime, abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar trick of adult ... born, why not after birth, why not any human being we declare defective? It is no surprise of course for many of us to learn that in hospitals across North American Continent such decisions affecting the newborn and the very elderly or those with incurable disease, are being made. What is a defect, what is a congenital defect? Hitler considered being ...
- 886: U.S. Scourge Spreads South of The Border
- ... of times. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Rohypnol has a respected corporate manufacturer--the Swiss pharmaceutical giant F. Hoffman-La Roche, which produces in Mexico City. There are so many American tourists buying drugs that Tijuana's pharmacies have doubled in the past five years and now number around 700. With their cheap, government-controlled prices, they have drawn tens of ... to take a stand and get the media involved in this, so the parents of an unexpected casualty doesn't have to hear about it from an autopsy report. The literature and statistics are there, but finding it can be a different task at hand. A war on drugs can't be won unless we all take an active role in ...
- 887: U.S. Scourge Spreads South Of The Border
- ... of times. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Rohypnol has a respected corporate manufacturer--the Swiss pharmaceutical giant F. Hoffman-La Roche, which produces in Mexico City. There are so many American tourists buying drugs that Tijuana's pharmacies have doubled in the past five years and now number around 700. With their cheap, government-controlled prices, they have drawn tens of ... to take a stand and get the media involved in this, so the parents of an unexpected casualty doesn't have to hear about it from an autopsy report. The literature and statistics are there, but finding it can be a different task at hand. A war on drugs can't be won unless we all take an active role in ...
- 888: Mobile Phone Risks
- ... anxiety, memory loss and serious birth defects. An Australian study found that mice exposed to pulsed digital phone radiation over 18 months had twice the risk of developing cancers. An American study found that learning and short term memory were impaired after 45 minutes exposure to radiation from phones in rats. And other studies of electromagnetic radiation on pregnant mice suggest ... telephone calls, using a mobile telephone which does not have the antenna in the handset or using a 'hands-free' attachment. There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of digital or analogue mobile telephones poses a long-term public health hazard This is how you minimize the risk Shorter conversations Avoid speaking for long periods ...
- 889: Euthanasia
- ... over their bodies and lives. But that is obviously just not true. No individual has absolute freedom. Even the patient's Bill of Rights, which was drawn up by the American Hospital Association, recognizes this. Although it acknowledges that patients have the right to refuse treatment, the document also realizes that they have this right and freedom only to the extent ... At the gaming table of life, nobody ever knows what the outcome will be. " Indeed, humans are noblest when they persist in the face of the inevitable. Look at our literature. Reflect on our heroes. They are not those who have capitulated but those who have endured. No, there's nothing undignified against being hollowed out by a catastrophic disease, about ...
- 890: Abortion Debate - Pro-Life Stance
- ... the rapist, for treatment of venereal disease and prevention of pregnancy. Let is give our children good sex education; and let us get tough on pornography, clean up the newstands, literature and "Adult Movies" and television programmes which encourage crime, abusive drugs and make mockery of morality and good behaviour and therefore, contribute to rape. By some peculiar trick of adult ... born, why not after birth, why not any human being we declare defective? It is no surprise of course for many of us to learn that in hospitals across North American Continent such decisions affecting the newborn and the very elderly or those with incurable disease, are being made. What is a defect, what is a congenital defect? Hitler considered being ...
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