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...York in 2003. He was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison, a penalty mandated by New York's controversial Rockefeller Drug Laws. Ashley is among about 14,000 people sent to New York prisons under the Rockefeller laws, in force since 1973, which impose harsh mandatory minimum terms on even first-time offenders - meaning they could get the same sentence as a person convicted of second degree murder...
...child-left-behind conception of public education, lifting everyone up to a minimum level is more important than allowing students to excel to their limit. It has become more important for schools to identify deficiencies than to cultivate gifts. Odd though it seems for a law written and enacted during a Republican Administration, the social impulse behind No Child Left Behind is radically egalitarian. It has forced schools to deeply subsidize the education of the least gifted, and gifted programs have suffered. The year after the President signed the law in 2002, Illinois cut $16 million from gifted education; Michigan...
...majority of the unbanked are American born. What these two groups have in common is low incomes, so they often may not have the minimum balance required at many banks to open a regular checking or savings account. Some people also lack the proper identification, like a tax ID or Social Security number, required to open an account, or have bounced too many checks in the past. Without a bank to cash their checks--a service generally free to account holders--the unbanked rely on check cashers, which charge up to 10% for a handwritten check. Despite decades of criticism...
...population in 2005. Banking, restaurant menus and even voter registration cards are now offered in Spanish, but Hispanics' emergence has not been without friction. Over the years Iowans have grown fearful that the immigrants brought in by the state's hog farms and hospitality industry are dragging down their minimum wages and taking jobs they might want, said Paula Martinez, who sits on the Iowa Democratic Central Committee. And the immigration debate, in turn, has helped make the Hispanic community "incredibly" active, according to Armando Villareal, administrator of the Iowa Division of Latino Affairs in Des Moines...
...There is a very large gap between recognizing how addiction looks on a brain scan and developing therapies that are effective enough to safely abolish addictive behavior. Once a safe and effective candidate drug is discovered, a minimum of five years is needed before the Food and Drug Administration can deem it safe to administer to millions of addicts. We are at least a decade away from even starting such trials. Addiction is a side effect of the positive evolutionary pressures to respond to pleasurable stimuli by seeking repeat stimulation. Alcoholics Anonymous is one form of therapy that...