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...state police helicopter which crashed into the Harvard Yacht Club in February, killing four on board, had contaminants in its fuel system that may have caused the motor to fail, a federal official told reporters at a press conference yesterday...
Berkowitz has studied the "weapons effect" for more than 40 years. "There's no dispute," he says. "Even the sight of guns, which people think of as objects that can hurt others, can induce aggressive ideas. A weapon can function as a conditioned stimulus, eliciting both the thoughts and motor responses associated with...
...American child is killed by a gun every two hours. An estimated 100,000 students carry a gun to school each day. It is expected that by the year 2003 the annual number of deaths from firearms in the U.S. will surpass the number of people killed in motor-vehicle accidents, thus becoming the leading cause of injury-related deaths. Oklahoma's bombing can provide what educators call a "teachable moment'' -- and just because a vital lesson appears to have escaped Bob Dole doesn't mean others can't learn. Outlawing all guns may be impossible, but continuing...
...time a valid driver'slicense we keep it and depending on the situationwe notify the registry of motor vehicles or theappropriate people," McGuire says...
University of Colorado professor Evelyn Hu-DeHart, whom ESAC quotes in their manifesto, admits that activism and not academics is the motor behind the movement. Hu-DeHart argues that growing acceptance of ethnic studies' basic academic premise--that past social scientists have focused on elite perspectives--challenges its position as a separate discipline apart from traditional academic departments. "The challenge is to reconcile the academic goal of ethnic studies--the production of knowledge--with its original commitment to liberating and empowering the communities of color [emphasis mine]," she writes...