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This year's caucus shows the importance of an initial testing ground for the candidates, and Iowa is as good a state as any to sponsor this test. A majority of Iowa's population lives in cities, and the per capita income is close to the national average. Over the years, the Iowans have shown themselves to be a people very serious and conscientious about their politics...
Massachusetts was ranked 40th in the country for per capita student spending in 1977. The state is now ranked 10th, Schwartz said...
Chase's murder followed months of controversy in which black leaders have sharply criticized the police for using their guns too readily. In 1986 Dallas ranked first among the nation's eleven largest cities in the per capita incidence of police shootings (30, with ten deaths). Such controversial killings, including the shooting of an elderly black woman on her front porch, prompted congressional hearings last year...
...world. Today half of Gaza's residents have running water, compared with 14% two decades ago. Nearly 80% own refrigerators and television sets, up from 3%. In the West Bank more than four-fifths of the homes have electricity, in contrast to one-quarter 20 years ago. Per capita income rose in the West Bank from $300 in 1968 to $1,400 today, and in Gaza from $100 to about $1,000. Though the territories' health-care system is still inferior to that of Israel, an Israeli-sponsored overhaul has helped raise life expectancy from 48 to 62 years...
Iowans have a solidity and a temperance that make the state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...