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Murphy is quick to draw a causal link between such community programs as half-way houses and the decrease in juvenile crime. He especially credits the National Youth Program Using Mini-Bikes (NYPUM) as a central factor in contributing to the youthful crime drop in Cambridge. "NYPUM's probably the most significant factor in keeping kids busy," Murphy says...
Started in 1974, the program is directed at repeat offenders, and aims to give them an opportunity to learn to ride mini-bikes in exchange for a signed contract on their part that pledges them to "stay out of trouble," Murphy says...
...very few-demographers think that there will soon be a mini-boom in the U.S. birth rate, as couples who have deferred parenthood decide to start families. Most experts, however, discount an end to the birth dearth. With the exception of the aberrant twelve-year postwar fertility surge, they point out, the birth rate has been declining in the U.S. since...
These last examples bring up a very major objection to Barry Fell's theories. With so many mini-kingdoms all over the North American continent, with all those traders bustling about, and even mining settlements in many places, why is there no hard archeological evidence other than Fell's alleged inscriptions...
...wasn't the Snake River Canyon this time, but Daredevil Evel Knievel came a cropper anyway. CBS-TV had signed him up for a live 90-minute mini-Jaws show: he was to vault his Harley over a 64-ft.-wide tub full of "killer sharks." On a trial run before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting...