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Teen pregnancy rates and prevention effectiveness in the United States

The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the developed world with 750,000 every year and the accompanying negative social and economic impact on the teenagers, their children, their families, the community and the nation.

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School budget allocation strategies and scarcity tradeoffs

The school's budget needs to be cut dramatically. While there are $110 million in funding proposals on the table, there is only $65 million available to fund them. There are a few different approaches to balancing this budget.

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Framing, fairness and balance in Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Few viewers of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism would emerge having much faith in the validity of Fox News, a news channel owned by media mogul and billionaire Rupert Murdoch.

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Organizational failures and communication breakdowns in the Challenger disaster

Is any one part, group or organization responsible for the disaster? On January 28, 1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploded minutes after it took off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Effective direct mail strategies for nonprofit fundraising campaigns

Fund-raising campaigns can be costly, so it is important for organizations to ensure their efforts will be productive. As Verhaert and Van den Poel (2011) noted, online solicitations are increasingly used.

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Physician-assisted suicide and the ethics of patient autonomy

What is the physician's responsibility when they can not assuage their patient's suffering? Is their duty to prolong basic bodily functions, or is their duty to stop pain?

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Ramachandran's mirror box therapy for phantom limb pain

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know," wrote the poet John Keats in a statement that -- because it encompasses the intuitiveness and ineffability of how it is that we perceive and recognize beauty.

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Population health priorities and collaborative partnerships in healthcare delivery

The goal of a population health approach is "to maintain and improve the health status of the entire population and to reduce inequalities in health status between groups and/or subgroups," (Health Canada 1999).

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Workplace safety at Walmart: deontological versus utilitarian approaches

It is likely that the most dangerous jobs at Wal-Mart are in the company's warehouses and shipping centers. Jobs of this nature would involve stacking pallets and other heavy lifting with equipment. The company appears to do a good job in protecting these workers.

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Congress, the Affordable Care Act, and the private insurance mandate

Polsby states is the House of Representatives has become more institutionalized as time progresses. He believes the necessity of institutionalization is due to the fact that as the House grew, the functions and duties it took upon expanded, too, which demands a system of organization.

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