Word: california
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...California Regent Ward Connerly strongly defended the state's abolition of racial preferences last night, a little more than a week after the first wave of admissions statistics revealed a significant drop in minority attendance at several prestigious state universities...
Speaking before a standing-room only crowd at the ARCO Forum, Connerly, who spearheaded the 1995 drive to end affirmative action in the state university system and later advocated an amendment to the California state constitution, said the American "experiment" in democracy could not sustain itself if government institutions used race as a factor to remedy society's ills...
While Viagra doesn't work for every impotent man, it does work for up to 80% of them. "There appears to be no group that has been tested that has a zero response," says urologist Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan of the University of Southern California. Even men with the most severe forms of impotence--spinal-injury victims, diabetics, those who have undergone prostate-cancer surgery--have responded...
...punish the parents? According to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver, 42 states have enacted laws making parents responsible in one form or another for their children's crimes. Of those states, 17 make parents criminally liable, sometimes with the threat of hefty fines and jail time. California's 1988 antigang law is one of the toughest. The state's Parental Responsibility Act makes parents liable for inadequate supervision, with penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas adopted a parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians...
...easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal act by the child. It's more concrete." Florida passed the first CAP law in 1989, and 14 other states have enacted similar legislation (see map). CAP laws are pending in Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Missouri and South Carolina. In Connecticut, California and Florida, violation is a felony. In Florida adults can face five years in prison and a $5,000 fine if a minor obtains a firearm and uses it to inflict injury or death...