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...American families and businesses are being forced to privatize security and sanitation by default. Community associations, ranging from small condominiums to sprawling planned communities, have grown from 10,000 in 1970 to 150,000 in 1993 and now include nearly 1 out of every 8 Americans. ``It's the fastest-growing form of local government,'' says William Eggers, who conducts an annual study of privatization in the U.S. ``People are saying that if the government can't protect them anymore or keep their streets clean, then they are going to do it themselves...
That's often the way it goes for the approximately 500 Muslims enrolled in the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Despite the fact that they represent one of the fastest growing creeds in the College, Islamic students say the Harvard administration still doesn't take their concerns or religious needs seriously...
...women and 3,779 men ---- for more than a year and found that women were a third more likely to die than men whose AIDS virus was at a similar level of development. Women represent only 15 percent of AIDS patients nationally, although women and children make up the fastest growing AIDS population. The study's authors say, however, that women wait longer before seeking an AIDS test or treatment and may be treated differently than men even after the disease is diagnosed...
...fastest growing student groups on campus. Membership has roughly doubled in the past two years, according to out-going president Eugene...
...rate of drug use among American youth is "getting worse at a fairly rapid pace," according to a government report released today. The 52,000-student survey, performed for the Department of Health and Human Services by the University of Michigan, found the drug-using trend was accelerating fastest among pre-teens: 25 percent of eighth graders queried, for example, acknowledged using illicit drugs at some point in their lives (35 percent counting inhalants). The most striking finding: Admissions of marijuana use within the past year doubled since 1991 for eighth graders (to 13 percent); 10th graders' jumped from...