ANNCR: The Occupational Safety and Health Act - on today's Congressional Moment Congress first dealt with issues of safety and health in the workplace in 1890, when legislation was passed for safety standards in coal mines. Over the next several deca...
Dear Annie: I am a 24-year-old female and have been friends with Danielle for 12 years. In fact, she is the only friend I have. Recently, I expressed some personal frustrations to her about my brother-in-law's lifestyle. Last weekend, he came to visi...
Dear Annie: I'm a 15-year-old girl who has been having problems with another girl for about a year. She's basically stalking me over the computer. I've received multiple threatening messages from her on MySpace. She says, Why don't you just go and ki...
ANNCR: The Pell Grant Program on Today's Congressional Moment. The term Pell Grant becomes very familiar to millions of collegeage students and their families every year. Pell Grants assist undergraduate low and middleincome college students with tui...
ANNCR: The Orphan Drug Act on Today's Congressional Moment. The Orphan Drug Act is not about children without parents. The term orphan drugs refers to medical products that would not be adopted by major pharmaceutical companies because they serve onl...
With a strong poison spray aimed at a bunch of flying insects, it's easy to imagine several of them falling together at the same time. Because flies are small and dirty creatures, we do not much care if many die at once. However, when it comes to hum...
Parents play an important role in shaping their children's dietary patterns and should assume the greatest responsibility for the low vegetable and fruit consumption among children, according to the results of a survey released by the Formosa Cancer...
ANNCR: The National Park Service Today on Congressional Moment National parks have been called the best idea America ever had. But the idea of preserving land ran contrary to the prevailing national mood during the 19th century, which saw nature as s...
ANNCR: THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEM Today on Congressional Moment On July 7th, 1919, the U.S. Army assembled 81 motorized vehicles and 288 men in Washington, D.C. Their mission: to drive across the country. This transcontinental convoy dealt with all...
ANNCR: Medicare on todays Congressional Moment By the early 1950s, it was becoming apparent that a growing number of elderly Americans had no economic protection from the increasing cost of health care. Most people over 65 had very low incomes and fe...
ANNCR: The National Science Foundation On Today's Congressional Moment The relationship between the Federal government and the scientific community has grown from the earliest days of the Republic, with the Founders recognizing in the Constitution th...
ANNCR: IMMIGRATION REFORM Today on Congressional Moment MALE VOICE: (w/effects, mild harbor sounds ) Give me your tired, your poor...your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... ANNCR: These words, written by American poet Emma Lazarus and inscrib...
If you love your job, part of the reason may be that you freely chose the work that you do. You were not forced to do it. But imagine a situation during wartime in which there were some soldiers or guards with guns standing above you, forcing you to...
Dear Annie: My unmarried 30-year-old daughter has a drinking and behavioral problem that has escalated over the past year. We have encouraged Terrie to get alcohol counseling or attend A.A. She tried it once and quit. I believe she is bipolar, but me...
Two Lovers, directed by James Gray, is a love story that takes place in Brooklyn, New York, where Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) meets Sandra (Vinessa Shaw) and Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow). Leonard has some mental and psychological issues due to his ex-fia...
