- Science and Technology
- Development
of alternate forms of energy
- Stem
cell research
- Fuel
efficiency in automobiles
- Safety
of genetically engineered foods
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Education and School
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- School
sports culture leads to violence
- On-line
education
- Later
start to the school day
- 4-day
school week
- Out-of-school
suspension
- Home
schooling
- Emphasis
on college admissions tests
- Retention
of students because of failing grades
- Video
camera surveillance in schools
- Nutritional
content of school lunches
- Mainstreaming
of disabled children
- Year-round
schooling
- Dress
codes for students
- Value
of homework
- Vouchers
in education
- Testing
to hold schools accountable for student
achievement
- Longer
school day/year
- Inflation
of grades in high school and college
- Necessity
of teacher certification
- Inclusion
of pre-schools in public education
system
- College
for everyone
- Kids
who are home schooled taking part in public school
activities
- Corporal
punishment for school discipline
- Corporate
presence in public school (like Pepsi
having
rights to all drink machines in
return
for giving the school
some of the profit)
- Early
decision programs for college admission
- Bilingual
education
- Middle
School as a good/bad concept for kids
- Single-sex
schools
- Too
much emphasis on computers in schools
- Value
of pre-school
- Fund
raising in schools
- Concentration on academics rather than sports
- Banning book bags in school
- School uniforms do/do not have an effect on
behavior, grades, etc.
- Being a "school snitch"--informing
on classmates about drug use and guns and being rewarded for doing so
- The problem of plagiarism in American schools
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Law and Crime
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Execution
of the mentally retarded
- Execution
of teenagers
- Rehabilitation
as a job of the prisons
- Prison
boot camps for young offenders
- Battered
woman syndrome as a defense
- Death
penalty for teens
- Sex-offender
registries
- Criminals getting off too easily
- Voting rights for prisoners
- DNA
testing of criminals
- Government
bailout of business
- Children
prosecuted as adults
- Media
publicity for serial killers increases/decreases threat to society
- Voting
rights for ex-prisoners
Sports
- Competitive
sports as unhealthy for children
- Mandatory
drug testing of athletes
- Gender
inequities in school sports
- Long
sports seasons
- Girls'
sports equal/not equal to boys' sports
- Team
sports create leaders
Health
& Medical
- Public
access to personal health records
- On-line
purchase of prescription drugs
- Smokers
with lung cancer collecting damages
- Justification
of animal experimentation
- Surrogate
mothering
- Pregnancy
in post-menopausal women
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Donating
blood
- Making
tobacco illegal
- Safety
of SUVs
- DNA
database
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Human
cloning
- Social Security benefits to begin later
because we are living longer
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Family
- Unmarried
mothers keeping their babies
- Unmarried
couples living together
- Visitation
rights for grandparents
- Same-sex
marriages
- Postponing
parenthood
- Spanking
children
- Video
game violence creating violent children
- Stronger
child pornography laws
- Kids
too busy to be kids
- Television
violence creating violent children
- Unmarried
mothers keeping their babies
- Taking
children out of abusive homes
- Parent
staying home with the children
- Leaving
unwanted babies at hospital encourages
abandonment
- Requiring
a license before you can have children
- Men
sharing birth control burden
- Open
adoption records
Internet issues
- Regulation
of the Internet
- Plagiarism
and the Internet
- On-line
purchasing hurts brick-and-mortar
businesses
- Internet
filters
- Gambling
on the Internet
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- MISC.
- Mandatory
drug testing in the work place
- Racial
profiling
- Credit
cards and young people
- Personal
responsibility for recycling
- Use
of military tribunals
- Motorcycle
helmet laws
- Existence
of ghosts
- Eliminating
the lottery
- Being
a vegetarian
- Driving
age for teenagers
- Pornography’s
harm to society
- Women
in military combat assignments
- Women
in military schools
- Toleration
of “hate speech”
- Animal
euthanasia
- Making
English the “official” language of the US
- Wartime
censorship
- Spaying
and neutering of pets
- Open
adoption records
- Arming
airline pilots
- Meat
industry use of antibiotics
- Restricting
immigration to the US
- Homosexuals
in the military
- Abusing
the right to sue
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Powers
of the government during war
- Women
in combat positions
- Exotic
animals as pets
- Government
bailout of private business/industry
- Dress
codes for adults
- Eminent
domain
- Tax driving by the mile
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