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...designing policy to combat alcohol abuse, Hobart and William Smith sociologist H. Wesley Perkins has found that students' perceptions of their environment plays a critical role in how they choose to approach drinking...
...MADD was able to overcome the challenges created by misattribution by focusing their campaign on a particularly harmful action and emphasizing the effects drunk driving has had on mother-child relationships. Wechsler's "second hand binge effects," approach has not displayed that kind of specificity or rigor necessary to combat the difficulties posed by the effects of attribution theory on the perceptions and attitudes of drinkers...
There is more to these games than merely giving government employees the chance to play James Bond. The point is to test the preparedness of a secretive task force organized to combat the possibility--eventuality, some would say--of nuclear terrorism in the U.S. Welcome to Fail Safe, the post-cold war edition...
This, however, is a good-news story--in the sense that the public is largely unaware of the lengths to which the U.S. government has already gone to combat the potential of nuclear terror. The cia and fbi work at stopping threats before they happen, while the Energy Department focuses on responding to actual emergencies. Though the department has had its funding cut more than 9% over the past four years, it has almost doubled its budget for responding to nuclear emergencies, now at $70 million annually. The core of the effort is the Nuclear Emergency Search Team--NEST. These...
...father was a combat-hardened Army lieutenant colonel whose soldiers called him "Stoneface," who spoke three languages and served as an intelligence officer, but was passed over for full colonel twice because he didn't hide his contempt for incompetent superiors. His mother was the gentle buddy who sometimes let her kids stay home from school just to be with mom, but would hide them in the closet at lunchtime when Bob came home so he wouldn't get angry. Newt never openly challenged his father's strict rules. He just ignored them...