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...change that could make it safer for Quad residents to walk home from class, the city of Cambridge has approved a plan to prohibit automobiles from using Follen and Little Concord Streets...
...gang leaders, who can easily order hits in any prison in the state, may have the Hardaways targeted next. Both boys were arrested and are being held in protective custody. As for the other children in Yummy's neighborhood, when they are asked what would make them feel safer, most give the same answer: getting a gun. Among other things, it would protect them from the children who already have them...
...October when Ndadaye was murdered in a failed coup by renegade Tutsi troops, who feared the Hutu were grabbing too many civilian jobs and military posts for themselves. In a wave of ensuing reprisals, 100,000 Burundians were killed and 500,000 left their homes to gather in safer encampments. The country's interim President, also a Hutu, died with Rwanda's leader...
...obstructionism by hard-core clinic protesters, it became a catalyst for public disgust and government action. Within the next 15 months, two Supreme Court rulings, an act of Congress and dozens of state and local ordinances contributed to the impression that few places on earth could be much safer than an abortion clinic...
Staying off the street at night may be safer, but don't look to the office for refuge. A new study by the Justice Department says 1 of every 6 violent crimes in America - - almost 1 million each year - - happens at the workplace. The Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, which looked at all U.S. crimes from 1987 through 1992, says that includes 16 percent of assaults, 8 percent of rapes and 7 percent of robberies, resulting in annual losses of about 1.8 million workdays and $55 million in wages. BTW: Other studies indicate that 4 percent of homicides occur...