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２００８年教育のⅢ、出典情報

2008年度教育のⅢ：
Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy
筆者：Robert Singh
出版社: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt) (2003/6/5)

19章Gun Control
Firearms in America(361)
Outside the United States, popular conceptions---animated in large part by american popular music, books, movies, and television---typically suggest that America possesses an excess of firearms, an absence of laws controlling them, and a citizenry that is either ingnorant of, or intentionally blind to, the serious public health costs of gun violence and the desirability of more restrictive gun regulations. From John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ice Cube, Natural Born Killers, and Eminen, certain familiar part of the western world as especially 'wild' about guns. But while the scalce of guns is a partial and misleading stereotype in terms of both the comples regulatory regime on firearms and the nature of american public attittudes to gun ownership.
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http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=zW7mi0Z7ZcQC&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=%22outside+the+united+states,+popular+conceptions%22&source=web&ots=AdEZSrpVV2&sig=i6Cy0wrInEDC4fNJ0LQwkE9ihdY&hl=ja&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA361,M1

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Obama's Inaugural Addressなど

利用しやすいインタラクティブなWebページ
Interactive video and transcript of Obama's Inaugural Address
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/20/us/politics/20090120_INAUGURAL_ANALYSIS.html

Natureの記事です。テーマごとに丁度良い長さの英文です。無料提供していますが、時間がたつと有料になります。
Commentary
Nature 457, 258-261 (15 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/457258a; Published online 14 January 2009
Your inbox, Mr President
Abstract
Rejuvenate the Environmental Protection Agency. End the stem-cell ban. Re-engage with the UN on climate change. Six leading voices tell Nature what the new US president needs to do to move beyond the Bush legacy
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7227/full/457258a.html