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...floor area bonus.”By the mid-70s, these new building practices had left a multitude of pointless, unattractive public spaces littered around the city. It was just at this time that a new underground culture was beginning to break out. Skateboarding had begun in California in the 1950s as people skated in unused swimming pools before spilling out onto skating ramps and the streets. However, the movie argues that, by the late-70s, “skateboarding seemed ripe for the museum of failed fads.” What saved it was street skating in cities...
...identify the functions of mitochondria (the powerhouse of a cell) and ribosomes (proteinmakers), as well as other cell components. Having emigrated from Romania in 1946, Palade became chairman of the cell-biology department at Yale in 1973 and then the founding dean of scientific affairs at the University of California at San Diego...
...taxes, which also enabled them to take out home loans. Previously, a valid U.S. Social Security number was required to purchase a home, thereby excluding illegal immigrants from qualifying for such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California--all areas with large populations of illegal aliens--but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that may have helped bring this situation about. Kathryn Bell, FRISCO, TEXAS...
...many schools fail to meet federal standards is that state requirements were very poorly structured under NCLB. About half of the states had anticipated a huge struggle in immediately meeting federally mandated standards, so they chose plans that would start with lower standards and ramp up in subsequent years. California, for example, required only modest proficiency gains of 2.2 percent a year from 2001 until last year, when required percentage increases leapt up to 11 percent a year. The California state superintendent admitted he hoped that Congress would soften the federal law when it came up for reauthorization...
...homicides.” Linked to this flawed belief in ‘deterrence’ is the common perception that putting a criminal to death is less costly than lifetime imprisonment. Again, this notion is unsubstantiated: The death penalty is more burdensome for the state. For example, in California, it costs an average of $90,000 more per inmate to confine an inmate to death row compared to the costs of a maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole most often serve their sentences. Such arguments raise meaningful objections to the practice of state...