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- 171: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... trade transactions, especially electronic. The United States has already gone on the offensive by accusing Europe of using privacy protection laws to erect barriers around the valuable European market of 370 million people. President Bill Clinton's Internet policy adviser Ira Magaziner has even threatened to go to the World Trade Organization (WTO) about it. At the same time he insists that the US is just as concerned to protect the ... There are currently about 250 bills relating to the Internet pending in Congress. Many of those deal specifically within privacy. However, only very few of these have become a law. That is largely because the Clinton administration and Congress have taken a largely wait-and-see approach to this conflict. Most lawmakers feel the Internet develops too quickly for static laws to work effectively. Instead, politicians from Vice President Al Gore ...
- 172: Bridging Technology And Academ
- ... million, and estimates that this figure will rise to 52 million in 2000 (Stacey, 1995). Governmental policy direction for educational technology has an important effect on how the higher education community accommodates NITs. As the Clinton/Gore administration maintain, technological literacy is "
as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing and arithmetic" (White House, 1996). The RAND report, "Fostering the Use of ... around the world". Vice President Gore predicts that, "By the year 2000, sixty percent of the new jobs in America will require advanced technological skills" (White House, 1996). The Educational Technology Initiative (1996), of the Clinton/Gore administration proposes the community-wide participation of parents, teachers, business leaders and the higher education community to collaboratively build the social, financial and educational infrastructure necessary for the employment of technology as an instructional ...
- 173: Nuclear Proliferation
- ... 000 each (www.nap.edu). This treaty was a milestone for both sides at the time. Then at the US-Russian Summit in Helsinki, Finland on March 20-21, 1997, yielded dramatic unexpected results. President Clinton and President Yeltsin agreed to begin talks on a new round of nuclear arms reduction (ftp.ucsusa.org). This new round will be the START III which will be passed by both countries as soon ... verify that individual warheads have been dismantled. UCS is pushing for the agreement to be interpreted as covering the fissile materials, plutonium and highly enriched uranium, coming out of the warheads as well. Even more, Clinton and Yeltsin agreed to discuss controls on sea-launched cruise missiles and tactical nuclear weapons, which are also not covered by existing treaties. Another treaty that has been passed in 1988 is the Intermediate-Range ...
- 174: Bridging Technology And Academe
- ... million, and estimates that this figure will rise to 52 million in 2000 (Stacey, 1995). Governmental policy direction for educational technology has an important effect on how the higher education community accommodates NITs. As the Clinton/Gore administration maintain, technological literacy is "
as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing and arithmetic" (White House, 1996). The RAND report, "Fostering the Use of ... around the world". Vice President Gore predicts that, "By the year 2000, sixty percent of the new jobs in America will require advanced technological skills" (White House, 1996). The Educational Technology Initiative (1996), of the Clinton/Gore administration proposes the community-wide participation of parents, teachers, business leaders and the higher education community to collaboratively build the social, financial and educational infrastructure necessary for the employment of technology as an instructional ...
- 175: Appalacian Regional Commission & Poverty In Appalachia
- ... LDDs work with their board members and other local citizens to develop plans for their communities economic development, to target and meet the most pressing needs, and to build community unity and leadership. The Clinton Administration requests $5.4 million in 1999 for support of the LDD program, which is the amount approved by the Commission in 1998. The LDDs are the organizational and institutional units put in place ... their focus on helping the poor. For too long the ARC has lost its way, focusing on bureaucracy, and on making political deals, instead of on the people they were suppose to help. Since, President Clinton gone into office, the ARC is no longer in threat of elimination by the executive, but is threatened by a Republican Congress that wants to reduce the role of the Federal government, and return power ...
- 176: Legalization Of Marijuana
- By: jim E-mail: wutang112878@hotmail.com Recently doctors have prescribed marijuana, and the Clinton administration threatened to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana, (Gonnerman 40). Doctors are prescribing marijuana for its medical benefits. The Clinton administration on the other hand is outlawing marijuana because it has not been approved by the FDA. Since doctors feel marijuana has medical benefits it should be clinically tested so they can prescribe it for ...
- 177: Welfare Reformation
- ... know ita plan that will encourage personality and help strengthen our families through tougher child support, more education and training, and an absolute requirement to go to work after a period of time. -Bill Clinton, radio address, 6/18/94 The welfare system is in deep distress. From the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the current reigning of Bill Clinton, many a bills have been brought for to reform it. Originally, Roosevelt established the system as a type of government stripend to financially challenged individuals; however, it was not intended to act as a dependent ...
- 178: To Clone Or Not To Clone
- ... headless humans, could be kept as an organ farm. He also gives examples of Cloning, such as the possibility to create models, and geniuses (Perspectives of Contemporary Issues, pg. 510). Krauthammer mentiones that President Bill Clinton banned cloning, but it won't be long until it is accepted. Krauthammer cloncusion is the prohibition of Human cloning and every type of cloning. These essays are a clear example of what cloning is ... considered persons. Krauthammer's essay mostly discusses human clones as human farms. Macklin talks about cloning being banned, but she does not state who banned it. Krauthammer explains this as saying that "Dolly" made president Clinton create a comission and temporary banned human clonning. Eventhough there is a temporary ban, this could someday be accepted. Krauthammer thinks, that this should be banned forever. There are a lot of different opinions about ...
- 179: Sexism
- ... shearing a job with a woman especially in government. Its this fact that a she is a she and they do not like that a woman would be on the same level as them. Bill Clinton wife "Hilary Clinton" is yet another example of a woman put down for being in control. The newspapers tore Hilary apart for trying to "take over" the President's job. Why would it bother them that she may ...
- 180: School Safety
- ... churches and retiree organizations. It is not only the community and the school who have to get involved in order to make a real change. At the 1998 White House Conference on School Safety, President Clinton announced a series of new initiatives in dealing with school violence. In one of the initiatives, President Clinton proposed a $12 million School Emergency Response to Violence to help schools and local communities respond to school- related violent deaths. The president also announced a new $65 million initiative to hire up to 2 ...
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