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...Reported by Stacy Perman/New York and Janet I-Chin Tu/Seattle
WASHINGTON: U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno released unexpected statistics showing that young people are committing fewer violent crimes for the first time in ten years. Last year, for every 100,000 juveniles, 511.9 were arrested for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault or other violent crimes. For the previous year, the figure per 100,000 was 527.4. The 2.9 percent drop is the first decline since 1987 in the combined rate for these felonies. Murder statistics have also fallen among 10-to-17-year-olds for the second consecutive year, and are now 22.8 percent below the 1993 level. Despite...
...pool at the Georgia Tech aquatic center was supposed to be the fastest in the world, but it yielded more surprises than world records (four). While teammates like Janet Evans and Amanda Beard got all the pre-Olympic hype, the charmingly gawky Van Dyken stole the show with an unprecedented four gold medals. Michelle Smith, another relative unknown from Ireland, a nation not heretofore known for its aquatics, won three races. The U.S. men's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team of Gary Hall Jr., Jon Olsen, Josh Davis and Brad Schumacher not only kept America's unbeaten streak...
...week progressed, attention shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
Then came the climax of the torch lighting. The final Olympic torchbearer had been a closely guarded secret. Two former Olympians, American boxer Evander Holyfield and Greek track star Voula Patoulidou, ran around the track together and handed off to U.S. swimmer Janet Evans. She ran up the ramp and passed the torch to a large man emerging from the shadows. As Cassius Clay, he had won the light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome, and as Muhammad Ali, he became the most famous athlete in the world. But a lifetime of blows has left him with Parkinson's syndrome...