Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lamas, who grew up in Cambridge, said, "I've never had a problem with crime here. I certainly didn't expect to have a problem when I came to Harvard...
First, the good news (and it's mostly good news): Crime rates continue to drop nationwide, with both murder and robbery rates now at their lowest levels since the late 1960s. The overall violent crime rate - the total number of assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...
...their legislation encouraging longer prison sentences and claiming that this keeps criminals off the streets and acts as a considerable deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer young men, the group statistically most likely to be committing crimes...
Locks are never going to solve this crime rash--no, plague--this crime plague that is sweeping campus. We have to go to the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is that here near Boston, we are not in small-town Wisconsin. So I have a recommendation for us all: Let's move the whole University to small-town Wisconsin. That way we can all sleep soundly, regardless of whether or not we take the time to lock our doors...
...looked like a well-preserved crime scene," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, who examined the bones with scanning electron microscopy. Slashes across foot, ankle and elbow joints indicate tendons and muscles were deliberately cut. Skulls were smashed to remove the brains, bones were broken for the marrow, and in at least one instance a tongue was cut out. The markings, says White, were what you'd expect "if you were slicing up and down to cut the meat away from a turkey bone...