Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent generations, many of those traditional risks have been reduced by science, government or legions of personal-injury lawyers, leaving boomers and Generations X and Y to face less real risk. Life expectancy has increased. Violent crime is down. You are 57% less likely to die of heart disease than your parents; smallpox, measles and polio have virtually been eradicated...
...Type T nation, as opposed to what Farley considers more risk-averse nations like Japan. He breaks it down further, into Type T physical (extreme athletes) and Type T intellectual (Albert Einstein, Galileo). He warns there is also Type T negative, that is, those who are drawn to delinquency, crime, experimentation with drugs, unprotected sex and a whole litany of destructive behaviors...
Apparently, having a genius for white-collar crime doesn't mean you're suited for life on the lam. Exactly four months to the day after he fled his Connecticut mansion, his financial empire crumbling, fugitive money manager and astrologist Martin Frankel was captured in Germany. "You got me," Frankel told German police and an FBI agent when they found him in his hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time. The amazing thing is that it took this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated...
...think it's very good for security. But Iwould like to have that information beconfidential unless there's a crime," Gomez said
From the Waco massacre to the brutal beating of Rodney King to the racist "war on crime," the U.S. government is viciously increasing repression of those who get in its way, carrying out a massive police mobilization that has its guns trained overwhelmingly on this country's urban Black population...