Drugging Our Kids | San Jose Mercury News
Pick 5 stories from the given selection. Turn in a spreadsheet listing what you read and summarizing your thoughts on the use of data.
Try to find the URLs of the data sources, if applicable
In your PADJO2015 Google Drive folder, create a new spreadsheet named PADJO2015-5-DATA-STORIES. It should have the following 3 columns:
The stories:
Law enforcement agencies have let solvable cold cases languish despite forensic science advances and a federal database that includes information on 10,000 people found deceased without an identity…
Since 2011, officers battered dozens causing broken bones, organ failure and death, costing the city $5.7 million.
Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country
Federal safety regulators received more than 260 complaints over the last 11 years about General Motors vehicles that suddenly turned off, but they declined to investigate the problem.
Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise
Manicurists are routinely underpaid and exploited, and endure ethnic bias and other abuse, The New York Times has found.
Northrop Grumman’s B2 Stealth Bomber. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force/Wikimedia Commons) What’s Washington’s gross political product? That is, how much, exactly, do corporations, trade groups and other special interests spend trying to influence the federal government? And who are the players involved in the process? Unfortunately, these are questions with …