Take this information with a grain of salt but it is interesting to say the least. It seems the rate of violent crimes is higher in Europe then it is in the good ol US of A.The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.The reason I say take this with a grain of salt is for the reason that the writer of the original article points
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Warner Brothers - Year: 1989 - Cover: Good - Format: 1.85:1 - Length: 1h33m/1h31m - Before: Yes on TV - Again: Yes - Price: £1 - Rating: 6/10. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is the sequel to National Lampoons EuropeanVacation , yes, the Griswold family are back. Clark Wilhelm Sparky Griswold Junior ( Chevy Chase ) trips, falls, mashes...
Pity the poor Polanski, stuck in a Swiss chalet: It's not clear how long this splendid captivity will last—the threat of extradition to the United States and a possible prison term there still hang over the 76-year-old director. But surely there are worse fates than being stuck in the tony resort of Gstaad, gazing up at the snow-covered Swiss Alps with your wife and two children by your side—especially...
If I were iffy, I would get body armour. Seems iffy shouldn't have Christmas holiday. Apparently they are afraid that Iffy will take a long Europeanvacation and never come back? oh wait maybe that's what they want. Merry Christmas Iffy. Liberal MP: Iggy doesn’t need a Christmas break The reverberations from nightcap-gate will most likely rumble on until the end of the week, at...
For those of you overseas just dying to see Pearl Jam live, there’s some good news and some bad. The good? Yes, the Seattle rockers have sketched out a mighty fine Europeanvacation for themselves. The unappealing twist? You’ll have to wait ’til next summer. But think of it this way, all this extra time means you’ll be able to sing each and every track off their latest effort, this year’s...
... as a step toward a more social-democratic state in the US. Social democracy as defined by Western Europeans is, broadly speaking a mixed economy as defined by some people in the US. Essentially social democracy offers the population at large a protective safety net of benefits, economic and medical below which the bulk of the population need not fear falling. It can consist of government...
... time preparing for the next day's class, and that also means that this is not equivalent to a Europeanvacation. So why do I do it? The initial incentive was my interest in comparative corporate law and EU studies. Although most of my scholarship and teaching focus on U.S. law, I have done some comparative writing and teaching, and I am interested in doing more. Summer programs usually...