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Crime in Cambridge dropped almost 40 percent from 1989 to 1998, and crime levels are expected stay constant this year, according to a police report released two weeks...
...city's Third Quarter Crime Report shows that occurrences of almost all Type I crimes have decreased. This category includes more serious crimes like murder, robbery or assault, with violent crime dropping by 13 percent overall...
Meanwhile, the report says violent crime is continuing on a long-term downward trend...
Other violent crimes are dropping too. Rapes, especially, have dropped dramatically--reported instances are down 41percent. "Stranger rapes," like last Monday's, are anomalies, according to the report--most Cambridge rape victims know their attackers...
Doctors, as they say, bury their mistakes. Now the National Academy of Sciences wants to learn something from those mistakes, and is asking Congress to take strong measures to protect patients from one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. - medical errors. The group issued a report that says such gaffes take a stunning 44,000 to 98,000 lives per year, more than the number of people who die annually in car accidents or from AIDS. The academy's solution? A new federal regulatory agency that would require doctors and hospitals to report deaths to a central...