... for analysis, dissemination, and study to help those in law enforcement and those wishing to research data related to criminal justice. The Bureau of Justice Statistics program under the DOJ, an executive, administrative branch of government, is an extremely useful tool for students to analyze an array of issues including both victim and offender information, including characteristics of these populations. The ... that there were roughly 1,706,600 minor children in the U. S. living without a parent due to the parent's prison stay. The statistics, also include (from surveys) information ...

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... need to warn, but at the same time we don't want to come up with a hasty judgment that would have far-reaching severe consequences for the sexual and reproductive health of women. This is a very difficult dilemma," she said (Belluck). Charles Morrison, senior director of clinical sciences at FHI 360, a nonprofit organization, believes that despite the downfalls of the study, the conclusions "raise the suspicion" (Belluck). "This is ... a good study, and I think it does add some important evidence," he wrote in ... ...

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... and injury tolls into the thousands. The cause of the conflict goes back to the fall of the former Soviet Union, the division of states, and then the succession of certain states from Georgia, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to the Associated Press, NATO came out in support of Georgia after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev refused to comply with a cease-fire order brokered for the two nations by France ... . The conflict is far from over, as debate over who started it in the first place continues. According to Georgian officials, Russia started it by mobilizing tens of t...

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... Circle and located in Hammerfest, the northernmost city in the world, pipes gas from the sea bottom (Reiss). Despite being one of the world's leading exporters of both oil and natural gas, Norway is now being closely scrutinized for research purposes. As Washington prepares to revamp offshore drilling safety rules after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico last year, the Norwegian system is being studied ... companies, and communities living near offshore finds (Reiss). Last April, BP experienced the largest accidental oil spill in history, killing eleven workers, inj...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... reasonable levels, where so much of the news on economic fronts is grim or promises to be grim, it seems that the often beleaguered travel industry is set on surviving without a government bailout. While this is good news for the Airline industry, Passenger trains, gas stations, and buses, the same study also revealed grim news for the upscale sector of the hotel industry. Passengers who wish to ... travel or who need to travel for business are selecting more modest accommodations than they have previously, rather than choosing simply not ... to travel. As such, to make sure they are f...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... CNN and pop-culture portal YouTube collaborated on two debates between the candidates, so that potential votes could ask the candidates the questions they wanted answered. Never before has that been done. Because YouTube is such an enormously popular website across a diverse demographic and because the new arrangement allowed for the people's voices to be heard, more and more people got ... involved. People who wouldn't have normally watched a traditional debate, where the questions are pre-determined ... by political experts tuned in to hear the candidates weigh in on what the America...

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... emotional, spiritual, and physical force if need be (Lengel). In 2009, two of the church's top members, Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, went on record for the first time since leaving the group. From the inside circle, Rathbun and Rinder both saw the abuse being dealt by the church. Their first report listed several issues involving Scientology's highest leaders, particularly David ... Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse ... Haggis, Hollywood director of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash," left the chu...

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... strong immigration trends resulting to new household formations; increasing homeownership rates; an aging housing stock (approximately 36% of existing home were built before 1960); and better financing options for buyers. The Homeownership Alliance predicts that these demand drivers will lead to 1.85 to 2.17 million new U.S. housing starts per year through 2013. In addition, evidence exists which imply that ... ranging from 15% to a maximum of 89% as stated in the Bond, Seiler and Seiler (2002) study. All these studies have also confirmed that the actual amount of any premium for a view ...

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... - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signal via antennae rather than from satellite or cable will turn on their sets ... to raise a stink. Their sets will merely become trash. One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging...

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... forward. If power is not used in a positive manner, it can have devastating consequences for the organization. Politics With the basic context of power explicated, it is now possible to consider what is meant by politics in this same context. Boe goes on to note the definition of politics as 'the study of who gets what, when and how' (p. 140). Boe argues that this process can ... be seen in almost every aspect of organizational discourse. From which department gets money for projects to who gets promoted in the organization. Politics in the organization, according to Boe, is only mitiga...

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... and development. Since the Earth Institute is interested in the study of all of Earth's systems, the idea of the sustainability of tourism is something that they have conducted research on. Another one of the Earth Institute's projects is to conduct research on some of the correlations between poverty and environmental degradation. The goal of Earth Institute is to improve the environment by improving the quality of life for Earth's poorest ... other industries benefited from this influx of tourists, but the government of Australia ended up being the only ones to pay for the protection ...

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... rights are being ignored by government (Barstow). However, for the majority of the Tea Partiers, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have run government properly. They were outraged when Democrats passed a $1 trillion health care bill at a time when the country's deficit was rising too fast. On the other hand, they have also criticized Republicans for contradicting the conservative principles that the party was founded on by spending too much money ... when they were in power also (Spillius). At Tea Party gatherings, many advocate doing away with the Federal Reserve, the federal i...

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... four of his patients. In a medical world that relies more heavily on medication every day, Volkman wrote more prescriptions for oxycodone from 2003 to 2005 than any other doctor in the country, resulting in the deaths of several of his patients. In addition to the life terms, he also received jail time ranging from 10 to 20 years on 13 other criminal accounts, including ... that, and they still seen him. So that's how money-hungry they were. We cannot do anything about the past, but we can do something about the future" (CBS News). The counts of Volkman's illegal use of his medical lice...

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... , I know that all of us share a deep, abiding belief in this country, a belief in our people, a belief in the principles that have made America's economy the envy of the world." He then continued on to promise that his administration will "help lay the foundation for you to grow and innovate" while also pledging to devote new investment in infrastructure and education and a focus on ... removing "barriers that make it harder for you to compete - from the tax code to the regulatory system" (Dennis). In an attempt to reconcile the differences between his administration and the US Chamber o...

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... awards are made (Andrew and Kuhnhenn). The proposals that did not change from the original draft include a gradual increase in the Social Security retirement age to 68 by 2050 and 69 by 2075. The cost-of-living for the programs will decrease, and the cap on income subject to Social security taxes will increase. The plan also calls for an increase in the price of gasoline by fifteen cents per ... gallon. The federal worker pay will be frozen ... for three years, and 200,000 workers will lose their federal jobs through ... ...

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... to have two product outputs, then the PPF will show you the maximum combination of these two products. This follows that if you produce more of one product then the resulting production for the other product will become lesser because the PPF shows an inverse relation to the production of one product from the production of the other product. Opportunity cost is the amount of output of one product that ... is sacrificed because of limited resources in order to increase the output of another product by one unit. When ... improve in such a way that it has become cheaper for the said commodi...

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... name appeared on Glen Mulcaire's list, the private investigator hired by The News of the World. The list contained about 4,000 people rumored to be targets of the tabloid's phone scandal (Somaiya). "The last edition of The News of the World made great play of the paper's relationship with the Payne family," said Tom Watson, a parliament member who investigated the phone scandal. "I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this" (Somaiya ... ). Brooks testified that The News of the World did, in fact, give Payne a cell phone "for the last 11 years," but that ... ...

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... voted in (Rooney) "Minister Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience will provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy," Geithner said (Rooney). Lagarde will succeed Dominque Strauss-Kahn, who was recently arrested in New York for sexual assault. Lagarde is the first woman to hold this position and was selected by a consensus vote (Rooney), "I ... am deeply honored have the trust placed in me by the Executive Board. I would like to thank the Fund's global membership warmly for the broad-based support I have received....

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Despite their attempts, South African President Jacob Zuma and Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi were unable to reach an agreement to end the fighting in Africa during their meeting on Monday, May 30th. The two leaders have been trying for some time to meet on common ground to create a cease-fire, but neither is willing to compromise on certain points (MSNBC). Gadhafi agreed to accept ... only some stuff that Gadhafi wants to announce to stay in power," he announced from Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital. Baja believed that Zuma was negotiating an exit strategy for Gadhafi while in Tripoli, but...

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... experience in this area after working on the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989, applauded the efforts, "Very low-tech. The thing is that it worked," although he did express fear for the possible health concerns that workers might face resulting from their exposure to the oil (The Huffington Post). Although this most recent spill is nowhere near the magnitude of the spill in the Gulf, it still holds some drastic ... consequences for China, both environmentally and financially. China National ... ...

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... publicly using catch words like "bi-partisanship" and "compromise" as if they are inherently the goal. The bill itself will be watered down, ineffective and full of regulations that make healthcare an enormous nightmare for the person in need of its services. The result is that the healthcare reform bill proposed by Democrats and raped beyond recognition by special interest groups acting through puppet Republicans will ... then, in its implementation, become an albatross around the necks of future Democratic candidates and we will find our lawmakers embroiled ... are in need of medical...

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... (or nearly everything) you previously did with your old software. The fact that the code is available for everyone has another advantage - the bugs and security problems are fixed faster because there is a large community of programmers all over the world who work on these problems. Because of that these programs stay stable and secure for the end-users. And finally, if you have any problems you ... can ask for help from the community of users and developers of these programs and usually you should get help quickly. On ... the other side, not everything is great about the open-source a...

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... in light of real estate downturns, rising inflation and high gas and food prices, the act has been further expanded since that time and offers a variety of incentives for both businesses and individuals. The overall goal of the Act is to "jumpstart the economy." Individuals and couples filing Federal Income Tax Returns for 2007, even up until the late filing deadline of Oct. 15, 2008, may qualify ... for up to $2400 in rebates (for a family with four children and $70,000 in adjusted gross income ... they need this year to take advantage of the incentives. By encouraging businesses to sp...

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