Word: creationism
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Small businesses have traditionally been the principal sources of job creation in both the state and the country. They generally file as individuals, meaning that many companies will find themselves with higher taxer burdens if Question 6 passes. While it is true that most small businesses will not be hit by the tax hike, those that are will be the ones which are the most successful...
Wilson's recent proposal to establish a documentation system for citizens has only added to the storm of controversy. Specifically, he called for the creation of an identification card that would be issued to all legal residents of the state. The card would need to be presented any time an individual tried to receive state or federally funded non-emergency health care, enroll in a public school or obtain...
...CHARTER-SCHOOL MOVEMENT IS NOT yet big. Just 11 states, beginning with Minnesota in 1991, have passed laws permitting the creation of autonomous public schools like Northlane; a dozen more have similar laws in the works. Most states have restricted the number of these schools (100 in California, 25 in Massachusetts) in an attempt to appease teachers' unions and other opponents. Nevertheless, the charter movement is being heralded as the latest and best hope for a public-education system that has failed to deliver for too many children and cannot compete internationally...
...restored and renovated by Ehrenkrantz & Eckstut Architects. Its permanent collection boasts the million-plus artifacts collected by George Gustav Heye, a turn-of-the-century New York City banker who bought out Indian communities much the way William Randolph Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures as the famous, blood-red Crow shield, featuring a haunting human figure incorporating the actual body of a stork, which figured prominently in a Crow triumph over the Cheyenne; a gemlike Pomo hummingbird-feather basket; and an exquisite ceremonial mask from the 19th century...
Normally, the body tightly regulates the stimulation and inhibition of new blood vessels. Tumors, however, produce inducers to stimulate the creation of blood vessels near the tumor, and inhibitors which prevent the creation of vessels in distant parts of the body, said Bouck...