Word: california
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...same time, he added that a "California model" of multicultural studies-which advocates formal centers and departments in fields including Asian-American and Chicano studies-may not be the best option for the University...
During their two days in the capital, the honorees toured the city and met Gore and Southern California Congressional Representative Lucille Royball-Allard...
...California passed a Living Will law, allowing individuals to express their own preferences for end-of-life care, including freedom from aggressive medical therapies. In 1980, Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society, the largest international public advocacy group lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to physician aid-in-dying. In 1990, the Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, including food and fluids, and to appoint a health care surrogate decision-maker. These milestones demonstrate the concerted policy shift towards patient autonomy and patient-centered care...
...shooters and victims alike. Wintemute's 1994 study Ring of Fire, for example, takes a hard look at gunmakers around Los Angeles. It has been hailed as a major indictment of the cheapie pistols known as "Saturday-night specials," the weapons of choice of inner-city gangs. The California effort to impose tough new regulations to control their manufacture and sale is largely in response to this study...
...return to California, he began looking more deeply into gun violence by examining the instruments of death themselves. Though he had a childhood familiarity with some guns and had later taught shooting at a ymca summer camp, Wintemute began to approach the subject more seriously. He got a gun seller's license, went to gun shows to learn about the firearms business, joined the National Rifle Association--"to find out what they were up to"--and began target shooting to try to understand the allure of guns. At a recent conference of physicians studying gun violence, he turned...