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Editor's note: Tonight on Weekend Nightly News, Lea Thompson reports on off-campus fires. She offers up these tips for parents with kids in college.
We spend all our kids' lives preparing them for college. We spend most of our lives coming up with the money to pay for it. But did you ever even think your child could die in an off-campus fire? Did you ever dream that cheap, hole-in-the-wall place your son is living in could go up like a tinderbox?
I am the parent of three college graduates and I am embarrassed to tell you that I just never thought enough about whether, when they moved off-campus, they were living in a firetrap. So what would I look for now that I have been educated by the experts?
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Link to thisSo many have worked so hard to try to stem the tide of drunk driving in this country. Local governments have cracked down on liquor stores that sell to underage teenagers, people more readily call the police about rowdy parties in the neighborhood.
But now comes the revelation that just about anybody can order anything alcoholic they want on the Internet. And it often comes wrapped in brown paper so parents don’t have a clue what is inside.
Discuss (18 comments) Email this | Link to thisIn Ohio, there are two smoking initiatives on the ballot -– one is called "Smoke Free," the other is called "Smoke Less." Confused about which means what? The question and the answer are important, because one of them is sponsored by the tobacco industry.
In Arizona, there are also two initiatives. One is called "Smoke Free Arizona," the other is called the "Arizona Non-Smokers Protection Act." But they are far from being the same -- one allows a lot of smoking in public places.
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