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enacted a law to restructure benefits paid to families under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Under the new law, enacted in 1992, AFDC applicants that had resided in California for less than one year would receive…

were patrolling a "high drug area" in an unmarked vehicle, and observed a truck driven by Mr. Brown waiting at a stop sign at an intersection for an unusually long time; the truck then turned suddenly, without signaling, and sped off at an "unreasonable"…

31, 1968, nineteen members of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF)--better known to the world as Vietcong (VC)--secretly assembled in a garage about five blocks away from the American Embassy in Saigon. They sat huddled together in silenc…

there have been few incidences of atrocities that equal the treatment of the Jews in Europe during World War II. It is difficult to accept the levels of systematic cruelty and terror experienced during this period. In the book Survival in Auschwitz,…

California the second daughter of Walden and Sarah (Colvin) Griffin. Susan Griffin has 25 years of human services experience, with degrees in child development, music, psychology and behavioral science. She is completing her Ph.D. in clinical…

on how far Swahili culture has contributed to our socio-economic progress, I bet that the majority would vote in the negative out of sheer prejudice, but purely out of a realistic assessment of the role of this culture and the impact it has had…

Sverige (Kingdom of Sweden), constitutional monarchy in northern Europe, occupying the eastern portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is bounded on the north and west by Norway, on the northeast by Finland, on the east by the Gulf of Bothnia…

fjärran efter guld och österut gåvo örnen föda De dogo söderut i Särkland. Inscription in a stone outside Gripsholms castle. While the Vikings from Norway and Denmark…

reviews lately. They are being sued for millions of dollars for smokers' Medicaid bills. I do not understand why they are being sued. The tobacco companies are only trying to make a living like everyone else. Warning labels are put on cigarette…

It was originally part of China. But in 1949, the communists seized Mainland China forcing the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. From then on, Taiwan is also known as Free China. The leaders of Republic of China, (Free China) hoped someday that…