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...least 4,000 citizens have been imprisoned on political charges. Under a law passed in 1998, any word or action interpreted as an offense against the President can be punished by up to five years in jail. Lukashenko's writ is enforced by the highest number of police per capita in Europe, and his government has cracked down hard on human-rights and democracy organizations that criticize him. The U.S. and Europe have repeatedly condemned Belarus as an outpost of tyranny. Even at the forgotten edge of the Continent, a land where one man ruthlessly controls all state institutions...
...terms of GDP per capita, France is in the bottom half of Western European economies. According to official U.S. and European economic statistics, out of 50 American states, France’s GDP per capita outperformed only Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia, and Mississippi in 2001. A recent Swedish report calculated that if the U.S. economy had been frozen in 2000, it would take France an extra 15 years of growth to catch up to the American standard...
...university towns like Cambridge, arrests and convictions for marijuana use and distribution tend to be much lower per capita then almost anywhere else in the country, he says, as private colleges are often given leeway to deal with marijuana issues internally...
...Schools generally are much more tolerant about marijuana use,” St. Pierre says. “A place like Cambridge represents a situation where there’s a decidedly low per capita arrest rate...
...growing chorus of critics, including leaders of his own G.O.P., fear that his thrift has brought the state's economy to a standstill. This summer Standard & Poor's lowered South Carolina's coveted AAA-bond rating to AA+, citing unemployment of 6.3% and a per capita income ($27,172) stuck in the nation's bottom fifth. The state had just lost its bid for a $500 million Airbus plant; Sanford was widely accused of making a miserly effort to lure the aerospace giant...