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12 Cards in this Set
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What is the information superhighway?
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network of communications devices that link people and business around the country and around the world.
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What was the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
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Removed barriers in communications industries, increased competition.
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Describe modern space exploration
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first picture of Mars
International Space Station Hubble Telescope, new planets |
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What is the Human Genome project?
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the international science project to map all the genes in the human body, finished in 2000, hope that mapping all the gene sequences will aid treating diseases and discovering congenital disorders.
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What is genetic engineering?
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the artificial changing of the molecular biology of an organism's cells to alter the organism.
Food and plants have often been genetically modified. |
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How have people tried to help the environment?
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Recycling, trying to use less fossil fuels.
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What is urban flight?
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The movement of Americans out of the cities and into the suburbs.
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What is gentrification?
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Process in 1990 where people started returning to the cities where the land values had fallen, they start fixing up neighborhoods, bringing in new businesses and restaurants.
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Describe suburban life
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Commuting to jobs, telecommuting, more privacy and space, better school, increase minorities in suburbs.
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What factors will force Social Security to run out?
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Lower birthrate means fewer workers paying taxes to support retired workers.
Retired workers living longer after they start collecting Social Security, more costly. Will run out in 2030 or earlier. |
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What was Proposition 187?
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California bill that cut off all education and nonemergency health benefits to illegal immigrants. Declared unconstitutional.
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Describe native americans fights for rights.
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gaming on reservations brings in income.
court cases restore tribal lands. |
