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Vieques has a 26.3 percent unemployment rate, and 73.3 percent of its population lives below the poverty line, according to a Puerto Rican government commission on Vieques...
...particular, the rate of cancer on the island in the 1980s was 27 percent higher than that of Puerto Rico as a whole, according to the Puerto Rican government commission...
Still, some question whether SSI's high turnover rate will hinder security efforts...
Evolution is theory and not fact. All of science is a changing story. With each new discovery, our knowledge of the universe grows and becomes more precise, and new hypotheses are supported and disproved at an alarming rate. But while creationism is presented as a scientific theory, it has been refuted fairly convincingly by leading scientists. Our knowledge of the world around us thrives because we teach theories that withstand scientific scrutiny and the test of time, not those that are unsupported...
...letter to New York City and, more so, to Jennifer Love Hewitt, this spinoff of the wheezing Party of Five captures both in luminous visuals--the pilot looks as if it cost as much as a full season of That '70s Show. But the writing seems decidedly more cut-rate. Hewitt's Sarah Merrin heads east to find her biological father and take a bite out of the Big Apple, dropping Holly Golightly-isms like, "Give me one good reason why I should not spend the night dancing!" This star vehicle, thus far, is a shiny subway to nowhere...