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...Department of Transportation, two of every five Americans will be in an alcohol-related car accident. Almost 24,000 people die each year in alcohol-related car crashes. More than 500,000 people are injured in such accidents each year. Drunk driving accidents are the leading cause of death among 15 to 19 year olds...
YEREVAN, U.S.S.R.--Survivors of the Armenian earthquake are freezing to death at night because only a fraction of the thousands of tents sent to the disaster area reach the homeless, a Soviet newspaper reported yesterday...
...lethal than anywhere else in Europe. The country has the largest number of addicts on the Continent: an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 are hooked on heroin alone. So far this year, 700 Italians, mostly young people, have died from overdoses -- another tragic record -- with the highest death tolls in industrial centers like Milan and Turin. Says Milan Mayor Paolo Pillitteri: "The problem has exploded this year. The quantity of heroin and cocaine on the streets is enormous." Every day, he says, special sanitation crews pick up some 4,000 syringes discarded by drug addicts...
...more than 110 years there were three things American investors could count on: death, taxes and a profit at AT&T. Now they are back to two. For the first time since 1877, when Alexander Graham Bell founded what was then called the Bell Telephone Co., the telecommunications empire will post a loss for the year. The deficit, which could run as high as $1.7 billion, will be the result of AT&T's decision last week to scrap $5.6 billion worth of outdated equipment. In a drive to modernize, the company is replacing 2 billion miles of telephone connections...
...wants to be a writer "to convey the pains and hopes of human beings." Her poems, however, catch the pervasiveness of the intifadeh: "In its cage the bird is sad/ Does it cry because it is in exile?/ . . . Or is it the grievance against the rancorous enemy?" Though the death of her brother came as a terrible shock, Rana insists that it has not made her hate Jews. "But I do hate the occupation. If the Israelis are really bothered by the Palestinians hating them, then they should leave the West Bank and Gaza...