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...Juanita Thomas, aunt to three of the victims, breaks down. In the early morning hours the next day, in the Fifth Ward, National Guardsmen, deployed to help police the city, interrogate a suspected drug dealer. Robbery and homicide numbers in New Orleans are nearing pre-Katrina levels, despite the drop-off in population. As drug dealers and gangs return to town, fierce turf battles have convulsed low-income neighborhoods, adding to the fear and uncertainty of already anxious returnees...
Rollins said that faculty, staff, and students have been alerted about the fire. An information area has been set up at the “daycare drop-off spot” near the garage. The area will provide information about how employees whose cars were in the garage can claim their cars and when...
...Pragmatists contend that the drop-off is mostly a matter of cost. Although individual drug tests seem cheap - $25 to $50 each, according to Quest - the total expense gets difficult to justify when so few tests come up positive. According to a 1999 ACLU study, the federal government spent $11.7 million to find 153 drug users among almost 29,000 employees tested in 1990, a cost of $77,000 per positive test. Many industries, particularly construction, transportation, health care and retail, also face labor shortages, and the fierce competition for workers may compel employers to forgo drug tests that could...
...prisoners, rose to 89 a few days later, and then suddenly began to fade away. Recent communications by Gitmo inmates with their lawyers, and obtained by TIME, indicate that harsh force-feeding methods were used to end the hunger strikes. The military has offered no explanation for the drop-off in hunger strikers...
...year in the $2 trillion U.S. health-care system. But a significant shift is under way. It's one that could put greater competitive pressure on U.S. hospitals as some of their most lucrative patients are siphoned off. Elective surgeries are key moneymakers for hospitals, and even a small drop-off can cut deep into their profits...