... to do it. Four kids at a high school in Los Angeles formed a band called the Germs. They made up stage names, and became Pat Smear, Darby Crash, Lorna Doom and Nicole Panter. They were middle class kids who wanted to do more than just get a college education and wear a suit and tie. When they first started out they were terrible, just ... knew what they were doing was art, and had such a great attitude about it that it was fun to go see them play and they grew in popularity very fast. Nicole Panter gives this account of her experience: "In '76 I moved up to Marin County for a year. At s...

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... since the early 1990's. Partner violence did not receive much focus by the public until the US Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 following the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, OJ Simpson's wife (Cherlin, 2002: 258). It has been determined since then that "partner violence cannot be understood without acknowledging important distinctions among types of violence, motives of ... ...

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... everyone. It might mean waiting all day for a shower, until the solar heater has time to do its work, or putting up with an occasional smell from the composting toilets. Nicole Otte, the society's program director, admits, "Ecotourism is still very small; it's a tiny niche of nature and adventure travel.""-(Polson, 96) While such groups as the Adventure Travel Society function ... ...

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