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Years of being on the streets have taken their toll on Heffellinger. She is not sure how long she's been homeless, but guesses it's been roughly 10 years...
...addition, youth aged 15 to 24 years old account for almost a quarter of the annual death toll from gun violence. These statistics clearly show that gun control is particularly important for youth. As the demographic most effected by gun violence, we have the duty to act on the issue. So why hasn't more student activism regarding gun control taken place? Surely the reason doesn't have to do with youth support for the issue. A nationwide survey revealed that up to 80 percent of Americans support moderate gun legislation and youth show even more support. Rather, it seems...
...driven by teens; an additional 600,000 teens will be injured. Drunk driving contributes to fewer teen accidents these days, thanks to zero-tolerance laws and higher alcohol-purchase ages. By addressing the far more common culprit of driver error, graduated-licensing programs should further reduce the teen-driving toll...
NIGHT-SHIFT TOLL One downside of today's booming, round-the-clock economy is heightened stress on shift workers with kids. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and the Family reveals that the risk of a marital breakup can increase as much as threefold when a mom works at night and sixfold when a dad does so. But there is no increased risk for childless couples, who do not have to juggle nighttime work obligations with daytime parenting...
...what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know all the animals in these woods." Over the years he increasingly knew that excessive hunting, beyond what was authorized by the government, was taking a terrible toll. That made him receptive in 1994 when the World Wildlife Fund approached him to lead a fight against illegal hunting of tigers (and the elk, boar and other game that tigers feed on) in the Primorye region in Russia's Far East. "If we can't protect the tiger...