Word: elevenfold
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...disappointed by the way you trivialized the drug war as a key issue before the "shadow conventions" organized by Arianna Huffington [NATION, July 31]. Since 1980, while the number of violent offenders sent to prison has doubled, the number of drug offenders imprisoned has increased elevenfold. In 1998, 1.5 million people were arrested for drug offenses. More than half a million of those arrests were for marijuana possession. Plenty of people other than Huffington care about this issue. VINCENT SCHIRALDI, DIRECTOR Justice Policy Institute Washington...
...contains stories about the future as well as the past. Among the genes are clear messages about what will happen to your body as you age, a few of which we can already read. There is a gene, for example, that can alter your susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease elevenfold, depending on whether its 334th letter...
...incorporating the game into their curriculums. Chess-in-the-Schools, the largest program, teaches the game to more than 36,000 students in 160 schools in New York City. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chess Federation, the governing body for all tournament play, has 42,000 junior members--an elevenfold increase since 1989. "Years back, people who played chess were considered nerdy," says Barbara DeMaro, a spokeswoman for the federation. "But now chess is cool." Says Brian Hawkins, director of the Harlem Chess Center: "Once more people started playing, it became more acceptable...