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...risk of heart disease, did better than Mexican Americans (5.3%), and both did better than African Americans (4.6%). The racial gaps have much to do with socioeconomic disparities and unequal access to health care, but there are also genetic factors at play, with certain groups having a higher susceptibility to certain conditions...
Criminologists say little research has been conducted to determine whether early-release initiatives lead to higher crime rates, although some prisoners who get out will undoubtedly commit crimes that they wouldn't have been able to commit if they were still behind bars. "There's no risk-free early-release program," says Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. But early release doesn't simply mean opening the gates and letting inmates run for it. No state is freeing sex offenders, murderers or habitually violent criminals. Most inmates who are eligible for early...
...prison, and you say, 'Holy s___, I don't want to go through that again.' That is the crime-reducing component of prison. But the other effect of incarceration is criminalization. You have connection with gangs. You have diminished opportunities after you get out - and therefore you have some higher chance of returning to crime. Lots of researchers have tried to sort out the strength of these two effects, without much success. With early release, then, the question becomes, Does it make them more criminal because they think, 'I got away with it,' or less criminal because they think...
...says JPMorgan's Kanno. Closer relationships with Asian economies, including China, can be facilitated by participating in regional free-trade agreements; in particular, Japan could win more friends by opening up its agricultural sector to cheap food from overseas in exchange for greater access to Asian markets for its higher-margin goods. "If Japan accepts more agricultural imports, then it will have closer relations and trade volume will rise," Kanno says...
...we’re all learning lessons and building off of the mistakes of previous games.”Despite the disappointment, second-year Coach Ray Leone and the senior members of his team believe this past week has motivated the 2008 Ivy League Champions to perform on a higher level for the rest of the season.“The second half we had a lot of energy, a lot of excitement, a lot of chances,” Leone reflected on both games. “It’s taken us two and a half games...