Monday, April 4, 2022

Question 53

Question 53

A deer was killed by a coyote in a yard several blocks from St. Bede's Church.

The Russians are outraged that the Ukrainians have bombed their storage centers.

Without any obligation on the part of citizens to earn their legal privileges or welfare benefits by serving the political community, the modern nation-state based on common culture or ethnicity becomes a tribal trust fund, rather like those managed by the U.S. federal government on behalf of Native American nations.--Lind, in an article "The End of Citizenship"

A comprehensive 2013 review of the literature by Carnegie Mellon criminologist Daniel Nagin found that “there is little evidence that increasing already long prison sentences has a material deterrence effect.”…A 2021 analysis by economists Evan K. Rose of the University of Chicago and Yohan Shem-Tov of UCLA found that while serving time behind bars reduces the likelihood that someone will reoffend in North Carolina, there are diminishing returns to longer sentences.

The 10 fastest growing counties last year accounted for nearly 80 percent of the national total, a testament not so much to the rapid pace of change in these places, but to the lack of significant growth in the rest of the nation.

"...now that women are the majority gender for degrees at all levels for more than a decade, and have been the majority gender for Associates and Bachelor’s degrees for 40 years and Master’s degrees for 35 years, why do women need a disproportionate share of campus resources in the form of scholarship funding, student awards, fellowships, mentoring programs, summer STEM programs, clubs, women’s centers, women’s commissions, etc.??"- perry

Just 50 percent of murders were solved in 2020 — the lowest rate in at least 40 years.

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