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...rate in the United States, which remains four times higher than in Western Europe, where preventative measures such as gun control have more effectively reduced violent crime. Rates of other crimes of victimization in the United States are in the mid range of similarly developed nations. What, then, could explain such a large prison population? Approximately 31 percent of state prison sentences are for simple possession or trafficking of drugs. This is far too many. While the legalization of all drugs—suggested by some as a solution to high rates of abuse and imprisonment?...
WHAT THIS MEANS While the study did not explain the results, it did suggest answers. African Americans were less likely to quit if they were of normal weight or lived with other smokers, hinting that their smoking could be related to worries about weight gain or lack of support in quitting. Younger Hispanics were least likely to quit, which suggests that age-specific messages might be helpful...
...applied-math major, Travis Haussler knows plenty about probability. But when asked to explain how the universe could allow Caltech, the college basketball team on which he plays, to lose 273 straight league games since 1985, Haussler is stumped. The Beavers--nature's engineers--had just dropped another heartbreaker, an overtime defeat to the University of La Verne, 80-74. Playing on its home court in Pasadena, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech's full name) had a 9-point lead in the first half. Yet the Beavers kept the most infamous streak in college hoops alive. "One little rebound...
...centrality of Fatima to the second, "suffering servant" stage of John Paul II's papacy, and his involvement with the two men who would become the Vatican's numbers one and two after his death, may help explain why Lucia's cause has been fast-tracked for beatification. Of course, there are other reasons: Fatima still receives 5 million pilgrims a year, and there is no real downside in pleasing them. And since the Vatican had already carefully vetted the circumstances of Fatima to beatify Lucia's two companions, how much more work need be done to establish the heroic...
...everyone sees it that way, though. A steady stream of would-be economic migrants has been arriving at Granny Sarah's door seeking an American visa. Almost every day she has to explain that the U.S. embassy in Nairobi is the only place that can make their American dream come true. (There's been a steady stream of journalists as well, so many that appointments now have to be made in advance before Granny Sarah will see them.) But even Granny Sarah admits to harboring secret hopes of a local windfall if Obama's momentum carries...