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According to M.J. Duberstein, director of research of the NFL Players' Association, the number of rookie signings this year is equal to the average pace, but most contracts have been signed very recently. More than one-third of those players drafted by the NFL have already signed contracts, Duberstein said...
Russell Mack, an airline spokesperson, said yesterday that 197 of the 293 people aboard survived. City Manager Hank Sinda put the number at 174--which, counting 76 confirmed dead, would put the number unaccounted...
...percent of the median income for whites, professional sports would seem to be a bastion of racial fairness and equity. After all, Blacks make up more than three-quarters of the NBA and more than half of the starters in the NFL. And with each year a greater number of Hispanics are becoming star players in major leagues baseball...
...about competition with the U.S. in particle physics, there is little doubt that the LEP has given the Europeans a major advantage. "I don't think of science as a football game," says Ugo Amaldi, who oversees one of the LEP's detectors. "But if you look at the number of American scientists coming here, it is clear that our way of doing things is attracting interest...
...experts see no certain connection between national suicide rates and the availability of guns. While the U.S. has a disproportionate number of suicides by firearms, it falls only about midway on the World Health Organization's most recent list of overall suicide rates in 33 industrialized nations. At 13.2 per 100,000 people, America's record was far worse than that of Ireland (9.2), Italy (8.3), Spain (6.9) and Greece (3.8). But Hungary (45.5), Denmark (27.1), Finland (27) and Switzerland (22.8) make the problem in the U.S. seem inconsequential by comparison...