Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without "the benefit of parents, teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them unconditional love...
While Harvard administrators facilitate the connections between the student servers and the community, they cannot perform the actual services. Harvard may pay people to participate in public service, but in the case of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), that is not done (people are paid to facilitate and organize public service). Without student labor, community service on Harvard's behalf would almost completely cease. Without Harvard's facilitation, public service would carry on in a less effective form, but would remain intact...
...Research has demonstrated that students' perception of peer drug use norms may be substantially incorrect and that students may be negatively influenced by exaggerated perceptions beyond any influence of the actual peer norms," Perkins writes in his 1991 paper titled "Misperceptions of Peer Drug Use Norms Among College Students: Causes, Consequences and Potential Resolutions...
...essence all anyone would need to lay waste to a medium-size city like New Orleans are two things. The first is an understanding of the technology involved, the easy availability of which has been demonstrated by innumerable high school science whiz kids. The second component is actual fissionable material--55 lbs. of enriched uranium, say, which would be enough to turn the heart of New Orleans into radioactive dust. With the increasing use of nuclear technology around the world and the destabilization of Russia, the once stringent global controls on uranium and plutonium are increasingly being subverted. U.S. intelligence...
...good-news story--in the sense that the public is largely unaware of the lengths to which the U.S. government has already gone to combat the potential of nuclear terror. The cia and fbi work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies. Though the department has had its funding cut more than 9% over the past four years, it has almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These are the people America...