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Stack also conducted the only study to examine whether murder-suicide (as opposed to suicide alone) is associated with copycat crimes. That study, published 20 years ago, analyzed the impact of media coverage of mass murders and murder-suicides between 1968 and 1980. The study found no associated increase in homicide rates, but did note an uptick in suicide after well-publicized events. "There was a significant increase in national monthly suicide rates," he said, "It is a fairly substantial association and was independent of major control variables like the unemployment rate...
Ayckbourn, 70, who is still going strong from his home base in Scarborough, England, despite suffering a stroke three years ago, looks with bemusement at the trouble Americans have staging his delicate mix of comedy and tragedy. "It looks pretty easy," he says, "but it sure as hell isn't. You've only got to tune it too far one way or the other." The new Norman Conquests is pitch-perfect. Can't anyone in America pick up the tune...
...drug researchers argue that cannabis should be sold legally and taxed like tobacco. Ernesto Zedillo and C�sar Gaviria, former Presidents of Mexico and Colombia, respectively, have said the same. And Mexico's Congress is again debating decriminalization of marijuana use, after backing off the issue a few years ago under intense pressure from the Bush Administration...
That's looking now to be a far likelier course of action than it seemed just a few weeks ago, meaning that our banking system may survive more or less intact. This seems like a terrible cop-out, until you consider that this financial crisis wasn't initiated by the banks - that is, FDIC-insured depository institutions. It was a crisis that began among and devastated the shadow banks. A few banking companies - Citigroup, UBS, JPMorgan Chase - did become deeply entwined in the shadow-banking system through their investment-banking arms. But banks, narrowly defined, weren't the big problem...
...said that he was hopeful that small farms are making a comeback as the average American starts to “care more about where their food comes from.” For example, he mentioned that there are more farms in Massachusetts now than there were five years ago, and these farms are also smaller, both signs that independent, local farmers are on the rise. Davis took many questions from the audience about the best places to buy local produce. He said that New England’s best produce specialties include fiddlehead ferns, wild ramps, apples, cranberries...