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...partly to blame. U.S. aid to American Samoa goes to, among other places, an academic high school that does not teach enough skills useful on the island. Of its 600 graduates a year, 400 leave the island to find jobs. As a result, more American Samoans live in Honolulu and Los Angeles than in the South Pacific. Micronesia's annual suicide rate is 20 per 100,000 people, nearly double that...
...Honolulu's mayor beats...
...When a Honolulu grand jury indicted Three-Term Mayor Frank Fasi for bribery last March, Special Prosecutor Grant Cooper thought he had an airtight case. The flamboyant Fasi, 57, a former junk dealer given to gestures like throwing a birthday party for himself at Aloha Stadium and inviting 20,000 guests, was charged with entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored...
Fred R. Methered Honolulu...
...this paradox is being explained. Pondering data from a massive study of coronary problems in five different areas-Framingham, Mass., Honolulu, San Francisco, Evans County, Ga., and Albany, N.Y.-Statistician Tavia Gordon of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., noticed an unusual correlation. Virtually all those with heart disease-regardless of age, sex or racial background-also had reduced levels of a substance called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in their blood. By contrast, those free of atherosclerosis showed remarkably elevated HDL counts...