million Americans are addicted to alcohol and drugs‚ but only 11 percent of those with an addiction are receiving treatment. The United States sends more people to prison for drug charges than any other country in the world. Out-of-prison rehabilitation and treatment for drug offenders provides better results than imprisonment. Providing treatment outside jail is more cost-effective.It costs about $2‚000 to $7‚000 per person.The average cost of putting someone in the program is $32‚974‚ compared to
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Athens vs Sparta Sparta is a strong wonderful place it is a lot better than you think. The reason is Sparta has a very strong Army and it could take down any other Greek city-state. They also have free rights for women unlike Athens. Sparta as you can tell so far is the better place between them and Sparta. Sparta tries to stay in content for the strongest Army‚ they have better rights for women‚ and they have a great lifestyle. Sparta had the strongest Army too. In fact
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DO SHAREHOLDERS OF ACQUIRING FIRMS GAIN FROM ACQUISITIONS? Sara B. Moeller Frederik P. Schlingemann René M. Stulz Working Paper 9523 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9523 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 February 2003 We are grateful to Harry DeAngelo and Ralph Walkling for useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2003 by Sara
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position. As long as they didn’t attempt to expand their territory‚ they were in control. There were some unforeseen events that Pericles couldn’t account for. The first being that‚ with everyone in Athens eing contained in such a small area with less than ideal living conditions‚ people die. The walls protected the Athenians from their enemies‚ but it did not make them immune to desiese. During the first year of the war a plague swept through the Athens. It killed 30 thousand Athenians including pericles
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The economic ideology of Capitalism and Communism are so extremely different from one another that it can never be joined or have common factors Out of the two ideologies‚I believe that Capitalism is more effective this is because it has far more advantages over Communism due to the generated economic growth it has on its nations. One of the reasons I believe capitalism is more effective is because without any competition there is no progress .Without competition‚nations stagnate with no opportunities
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because during my freshman year of High School we read The Odyssey. In The Odyssey‚ I felt like they left us hanging. So we finally finished the story. In the Iliad‚ there are two types of warriors‚ Hector‚ and Achilles. I think Hector is more essential than Achilles. Hector is more essential because he is the son of King Priam and the Queen Hecuba. He is also the most essential soldier in the Trojan Army. He lets his soldiers know that “he is there for them”. He fights hard‚ he is strong‚ and he is very
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AN INDIVIDUAL REPORT SUMMARIZING THE RESEARCH TOPIC PRESENTED BY THE GROUP The research carried out by our group was‚ why international students prefer to study in the UK instead of the USA. This research covers all the aspects viz : the quality of education ‚the career prospects ‚ the tuition cost ‚the living cost ‚the duration of the course ‚the environment ‚the experience and last but not the least global reputation of the degree .We have also covered the various differences in the
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Ethanol that is made of corn emits a lot of pollutants during production and consumption‚ but cellulosic ethanol reduces the pollutant admission to the atmosphere making it better than the ethanol made of corn. Corn ethanol and cellulosic ethanol are both made at biorefineries‚ but they must add heat to the corn in order to produce the corn ethanol. When they make cellulosic ethanol there is no heat added and the cellulosic ethanol
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Snowflakes are Cooler Than You! As the glistening snowflakes fall from the sky‚ you might be thinking that the delegate snowflakes are just white specks that fall occasionally. However‚ they are so much more. Have you ever wondered how snowflakes are formed‚ the temperature it has to be for it to snow‚ or a snowflakes appearance/ It is so fascinating‚ lets go learn about snowflakes. To begin with‚ snowflakes have the most astonishing way of forming. According to the article‚ "Snow Day’’‚ it
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The North always had more than the South. They lived in the same country but did things differently. I believe that the North was more positive than the South. Most of this happened before the Civil War. In spite of everything‚ Northerners and Southerners had different social‚ economic and political cultures. The Underground Railroad was an escape route for slaves in the South. Harriet Tubman‚ Northern abolitionists‚ and Quaker Thomas Garrett mainly helped in the assistance getting slaves to Northern
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