Football players more likely to develop neurodegenerative disease‚ study finds By Nadia Kounang‚ CNN updated 4:38 PM EDT‚ Wed September 5‚ 2012 [pic] (CNN) -- Just hours before the 2012 NFL season kicks off‚ a new study suggests that professional football players are three times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases than the general population. When researchers specifically looked at Alzheimer’s disease and ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease
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Current Event This current event article is about the Supreme Court’s rule that allows people to give political campaigns money. The 5-4 ruling eliminated limits on how much money people can donate in total in one election season. However‚ the decision left intact the current $5‚200 limit on how much an individual can give to any single candidate during a two-year election cycle. Until now‚ an individual donor could give up to $123‚200 per cycle. The ruling means a wealthy liberal or conservative
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meeting about the war crimes in Sri Lanka. The war has been going on for quite some time. Since then‚ there has been little progress. The United States plans to propose a way to resolve the war crimes. This conflict will not affect in the future. This conflict does not affect my future either. The reason for this is that it is happening in another county‚ and it is also a civil situation within that country. I feel that a resolution should have been found for this conflict a long time ago. Many innocent
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Current Events # 2 There are many events today that connect with world history events from way back. For example there is a huge controversy with the Navy Yard shooter that relates to the Bill of Rights. But‚ first what happened at the Washington Navy Yard? At 8:15 A.M.‚ 34 years old Aaron Alexis who was a computer technician for a private Navy contractor killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawedoff Remington 870 Express shotgun‚ into which he had etched several statements
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Discuss the concept “social capital” with regard to development of welfare policy in your own country. Social capital is a multidimensional concept however it has consistently emerged in the literature of theoretical and applied social sciences like economics‚ sociology since the mid 1990s. In fact there is no universally accepted definition of social capital. In the broadest sense‚ the term encompasses those social relationships that help people to get along with each other and act more effectively
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Current Event Summary: Senate Democrats drop reforms from an aid package set for Ukraine on Tuesday. The funds would have increased the Ukraine loan package while ratifying changes that only the United States has opposed. President Obama proposed those changes to European allies whom have agreed‚ but won’t be providing as much money as he proposed to the cause. “The governance changes would raise the borrowing limit of countries like Ukraine at the multilateral lending institution‚ while giving
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Theme/Region Specific Evidence from the Article That summarizes KEY FACTS and supports my analysis of theme Analysis of why the event is important and the possible outcome Social Inequalities (Deals with the massive amount of the death penalty within China‚ and how it decreased in the former years.) East Asia China is known as the World’s Chief Executioner. Last year alone‚ 3‚000 people we executed in China‚ quadruple the amount of the world executions together. Xiao Yang‚ President of
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The tradition concept of development has for a considerable period of time been driven by economic considerations. Exploitation of natural resources which leads to environmental degradation motivated by targets of maximum profits has been the norm and little regard has been granted to the side effects of development initiatives. Gradual escalation of awareness and realisation of the range as well as the magnitude of environmental effects of development initiatives led to worldwide discussions on
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enormous amounts of personal information: emails‚ photos and videos; document files; financial and medical records; and virtually everywhere a person has been. On Tuesday‚ the Supreme Court will consider whether law enforcement officers during an arrest may search the contents of a person’s mobile phone without a warrant. The court should recognize that new technologies do not alter basic Fourth Amendment principles‚ and should require a judicial warrant in such circumstances. The court is considering
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Obesity: An American Epidemic Americans are well aware of the fact that the United States has one of the world’s highest rates of obesity and that the country has gained the worldwide stereotype of being overweight. This all pertains to the term that has been a coined phrase within American society for the past few years—the American obesity epidemic. Despite the widespread knowledge that being obese or overweight can negatively affect one’s health‚ America’s rates of obesity continue to climb
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