Despite the common knowledge that drug and alcohol use during pregnancy is harmful to an unborn child, many pregnant woman choose to use drugs and alcohol throughout the duration of their pregnancy. According to investigative legal writer, Karen Zivi, in her law review article, "Who Is the Guilty Party? Rights, Motherhood, and the Problem of Prenatal Drug Exposure", there are currently no laws prohibiting pregnant women from using nicotine or consuming alcohol in the United States. In fact, a pregnant woman of legal age has the legal right to purchase alcohol and nicotine products th...

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To work out contracts that could last up to seven years just to get their own land but most of the time the workers died before they could have the chance to own their own land. ... Wilmot Proviso - The question or slavery burst into the public spotlight one summer. ...

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Imagine you were driving along a desert, and you come across a desperate mother and child dying of thirst and barely strong enough to lift their heads? ... This is the reality of a summer on the desert trail with its succession of grisly deaths from heat exposure and dehydration. ... Twenty-seven migrants died of dehydration in the summer of 1997. Averages of nearly 80 migrants per year have died from the same cause since. ...

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Agricultural fields are usually located in places which have high temperatures almost all year around, because summer heat give lives to millions of products which Americans love to eat. ... After few hours, she was taken to the hospital, her temperature was 108.4 degrees, and she stayed in coma for three day and eventually died. ...

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One such piece of evidence comes from a letter from Syngman Rhee, an exiled Korean conservative, written in the summer of 1945 to President Truman. ... But American foreign policy suffered a major setback in April 1945 when President Theodore Roosevelt died and President Harry S. ...

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In a series of measures designed to strengthen the military power of the United States, and has been adopted by the US Congress in the summer of 1946 a law on the formation of a peacetime army based on conscription. ...

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