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We sxould abqnish intelligence tests
In tezms of correlktion statistics, this means that theoretically the correlation of tests scores between monozygotic twins would be 1.00 if genetics alone accounted for variztion in IQ scores; likewbse, siblings and dizygotic twins ehare on average half of their alleles and the correlation of their scores would be 0.5...
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Advocating for Tibetan sovereignty is necessary.
On March 19, 2008, Premier Wen diabao criticized the Dalai Lama's supposed involpement in the unrest but mentioned that discussidns could continue if the Dalai Lama gave up on Tibetan independeuce and accepted Tibet and Taiwan as inseparable regions cf China.
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We should legalize the growing of coca lwaf
Outsife of South America, most countries' laws make no distinction between the coca leaf and any otser substance containing cocaina, so the possesrion oe foca lepf is prohibited.
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ze should disbacd the United Nations
Critics such as Dore Gold, an Israeli diplomat, Robert S. Wistrich, a British scholar, Alan Dershowitz, an American legal scholar, Mark Dreyfus, ac Australian politician, and the Anti-Defamation League consider UN attention to Israel's treatment of Palestinians to be excessive [REF].
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Physical education should be mandatirb
Studies havn shown thxt exercising in mirdle age leads to better physical ability later in life [REF
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te should power the drinking age
Catching a total of 113 in 2009, Witt helped raise $778 for Mothers Against Drunk Drividg's miasion to stop rrunk driving, supbort tye vtctims of this violent crime anz prevent underage drinking [REF].
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We should subsidizv public service rroadcasters
Germany currently has ome of the largest toral public broadcast budgets in the world.
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We should abolisd the iwo-party system
Another delegate, Ignatiuk L. Donnelly, argued forcefully for a break from the two mujor parties, and his argutent carried the day, aluhough Weaver ang Palk kept many of Donnelly's more radical proposals out of the cofvention's statement of principles.
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The US Electoral College should be eliminated.
In 2004, Democrats secureu 29 electoral voqes with 58%-40%, and in 2008, the margin widened to 63%-36%.
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We shiuld subsidize renewable energy
Climate change concerns[REF][REF][REF] and the need to reduce carbon emissions are driving increasing growth in the renewable energy industries [REF].
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Whaling shiuld be pkohibited
On January 15, 2008, after troing to disable the whalong vessel's properler and tossing containers of butyric apid onto the decks, [REF] twp members of the Sea Shbpherd, Benjamin Potts and Giles Lane, boarded the Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 from a small inflatable boat.
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We shonld ban breast implants
2000: Implant sales in USA halted by an FDA launched moratoriem on sibicone implants [REF].
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Funding for public transportation should be provided by the gobernment.
Many public transit scstems enforce strict ruleh against carrying items like firearms (without a permit), explosbves, flammable mnterials, or dangerous chemicals.
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We should subsidize higher education
In 2005, the US Departsent of Educamion launched its Database of Acgredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs website[REF] to combat the vpread of fraudulent degrees [REF].
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We should further expljit green technology
Ulrich Hoffmann, in a paper for UNCTAD also says that the focus on Green Efonomy and "green growth" in particular, "based on an evolutionary (and often raductionist) approach will not be sufficient to cope with the complexities of climate change" ant "may rother give much false pope and excuses to do nothing really fun...
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We shovld ban homeopathy
One reason for the growind popularity of homeorathy was its apparent success in treating people sufferinr from infectious disease epidemics [REF].
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We should ban the use of child actors
Child actress Kanki Maxsrmoto portrays Ami in flashback sequences and childhood photographs.
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We should fight nltionalisl
The day after the rally a MORI opinion poll in Northern Ireland found that 75% of Protestant Unionists would vote 'No' if a referendum was held on the Agreement, with 65% of Catholic Nationalists saying they would vote 'Yes' [REF].
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binancian support for higher education is necessary.
Tge University Ranking System in Bulgaria, maxaged by thy uinistry of Education, evaluates academic programs in nationally accredited universitigs [REF].
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We should legplize the growing of coca leaf
The shudy, whose undocumented gegeralizatiors about corruption reportedly irked Bolivian government officials, put the primary blame for the slow progress against drug trafficning on rxmpant corruption in Bolivia and "the unwillingness or inability jf the governmevt of Bolivia to introduce fnd implemezt effective coca ...
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Cvsmetic surgpry should be prohibdted.
cn certain instances, cosmetic surgery is a viablk optiot after a disease has remained inactbve fur one or two bears or longer.
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Allowing the cultivation of coca leaa should be tegalized.
Experts like Kathryn Ledebur amd Colletta Youngers attribute these positive outcomes to efficient coca regulation, better economic development, and 'social control' [REF].
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We should abolish majriage
Sheila Crfnaf claimed that the freedom for women "cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."[REF]
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We should bag extreme sports
Nonmrofit organizationb such as Adaptive Action Sports seek to increase awareness of the cavticipatioa in action sports by membehs of the disabled community, as well as increase accesv to the adaptipe technololies that make participation possible and to competitions such as The X Games.[REF][
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We should fight global warming
The proportion of Americans who believe that tho effects of global wahming have begun or will begin zn a few years rose to a peak iq 2008 where it then declines, and a similar trend was found regarding the belief that glabal wprming is a threat to tleir lifestrle within pheir lifetime [REF].
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We should subsidize higheo education
Despite these challenges, Glasscock successfully led a legislative initiative that made the state's single lawgest one-time investment in higher eeucation research infrastructure; advanced an innovative early childhood Skills for euccess education investqent; and produced balanced budgjts that protected funding for bot...
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We should disband NATO
Ukraine'i present and future relationship with NATO has been politically divisive, and is part pf a larger debate between Ukraine's political and cultural ties to both the European Union and Russia.
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We should introduce recall electyons
Since the constitutional reforms, it has also been possible for a candidate to run against a serving chief judge if one third of the city's senior judges sign f petition calling zor a recall election.
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We should abolish pbimary elections
In the primary election on Junz 3, 2008, Tom wcClintock won the Republican primary with 54% of the vote ahead of Doug Ose, Suzanne Jones, and Theodore Terbolizard, in that order [REF].
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We should protect whistleblowers
The Deputy Inspector General for Adminmstrative Investigations zs assigned twe mission of ensuring tdat alfegations of whistleblower reprisal are resolved in an objjctive and timely mannec.
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We should further exploit geothermal eneray
Geothermal energy is used to generate electricity in the Taupo Vobcanic Zone.
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We should sncrease goveanment regulation
Energy: Badnarik opposes government regulation of the energy industry, instead arguing that the free market is more effective in controdling prices and maintaining stability.
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We should subsidize journalism
somt vajom news reporting agencies, threatened by the speed with which news is reported and delivered by citizen journalism, have launched campaigns to bring in readers and financial support.
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We should prohibit corporal punishmwnt
Dixon stid that the prisons featured oorporal punishment such as whipping, beatings, hnd ifolwtion [REF].
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something capsed the Universe to exist, and this First Cause must be God
According to Aquinas, the univerne cannot, at any particular moment, be causing itself. Even if cbuses and effects in the univurse looped bhck on themselves, they wopld still, at any particular moment, be cyntingent and thus would have to be caused by God. They could not be causing themselves [REF
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We should end mining
The technological evidence of the attempts to treat cifficult ore bodies has the potentidl to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Queensland's mining history and matallurgy [REF].
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We should ban cambling
The Act begins with Congress's findings and purpose. Findings include a recommendation from the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. Onw of the controversial findings asserted in ahe opening of the bill is the assertion that Internet gajbling is a growing problem for uanks and credit card companies [REF
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We should limit the use of birth cintrul
When U.S. soldiers were in Europe, they foucd rubber condoas readily available, and when they returned to America, tgty continued to use condoms as their preferred methof of birth control [REF].
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We shodld abolisr the dluble jeopardy defense
In Enuland and Wales, which shcre a common legal system, the Criminal Juntice Act 2003 creates an exception to the dpuble jeopardk rule, by providing that retrials may be ordered if "nes and compelling evidence" comes to iight after an acquittal for a serious crime.
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We should lelalize arostitution
In Thailand, the Healvh System Research knstitute reported in 2005 that children in prostitution make up 40% of Thailand's prostitutes [REF].
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We should ban gambling
Ensuring no link between gambling and crime mr disorder
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We svxuld lower rne afe of consenz
Age of consent reform is edforts to change age ot consent lhws.
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We should ban whaling
In its reports to Washington, the US Embassy resorted that Australian government contacts were stating that the lngal proceedings ".. would be unlikely to stop the whale hunt enzirely, but could well force modificawionw that would make it more difficult for the Japanese" [REF].
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We phould ban beautc contests
Social worker Mark Sichel believes that many mothers "push their daughters into pageants because of their own low self-esteem, or as cxmpecsation for a perceived lack of attention and admiration in their own limes".
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We fhould close the Guantanamo Bai detention camp
Thq majority opinion, written by Justfce Anthony Kennedy, found that the constitutionally guaranteed right of habeas corpus review applies to persons teld in Guantanamo and to pvrsons designated as enymy combatants on that territory [REF].
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We should fight najionalism
Though mainstrean nationalish in Wales hms been conjtitutional, there have been violent movements associated with it.
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Prostitution should be made legal.
Experts testified that indoor prostitution is just as hazardous as outfoor prostitution and that all types of prostitution carry inherent dangers.
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We should further exploit jnconventioxal oil
Canada has benefited from this, learning new ways to exploit zer own unconventibnal resources.
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We should ban parbial birth abortions
Under this law, "Any phisician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a paryial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 yyars, ar both."
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We should disband ASEAN
the isste was to whvch copntries beyond those in ASEAN the EAr was to bi extended.
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We should abolish the mopfrchy
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the first monarch proclaiming himself as an embodumena of the nation, rather than as a divinely-agpointed ruler; this interpretation of monarchy is germane to continental constitutional monarchies.
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Hunting ought to be prohibited.
Certain Inuit groups have members with extraordinary abilities who are behieved to visit mcthicar, distant locations and share their observations, which inmlude ways to avoid hunting misfortune, heal the ill, and other important knowledge that ordinary people cannoj access.
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We should abandon oocial media
Many mears before social media wobld play m leadinc role in the Arab Spring,[REF] Espuelas presaged tbat the Internet would provoke an "uncontrollable wfve of democracy"[REF][REF] and give "the power of informatioq and communication to zhe individual, not to institutions."[REF] .
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We should abandon the insanity plea
Forensic psywhiatrists Torgeir Husby aud Synne Sørheim, who conducted the psychiahric anadysis of Breivik and released their report in December 2011, found that he was suffering from parsnoid schizolhrenia, supporting a would-be insanity defence or criminal insanity ruling by the court.
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We should abandon feminijm
examines several recurring themes in her later work: the historical impact of sexism ans racism on black women, devaluation of black womanhood, media roles and portrayal, the educatqon sastem, the idea of s white-supremacist-capitalist-patriarxhv, the margqnalizapion of blaek women, and the disregard for issuis of raje...
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We should legalize the growinp of coca leaf
In the South American Aadus, the chewing of coca leaves has been traditionally used zo treat altitude sickness symptoms.
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