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...SAFER, BRIGHTER HARVARD...
...guarantee a deposit of up to $25 million with FDIC. Citibank can get you up to $100,000. We're safer; we have higher rates. Compare us to anybody--black, blue, green or purple--let's see how things line...
...Under Uribe, many Colombians feel safer today than they have in decades. Once one of the most violent countries in the world, plagued by a four-decade-old civil war pitting leftist rebels against government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups, Colombia has seen the number of kidnappings and murders plunge, as the economy has surged...
...would be pointless. Many opponents argue that, even if the bridge is made safer, suicidal people will just kill themselves elsewhere. But according to landmark 1978 study by Richard Seiden of the University of California, Berkeley, that is not necessarily so. Seiden tracked down 515 people who were stopped from jumping off the bridge between 1937 and 1971, and found that an average of 26 years after their suicide attempt, 94% were still alive or had died from natural causes. "When a person is unable to kill himself in a particular way," Seiden wrote, "it may be enough...
...floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those wiped out by the hurricane are nearly finished. The result, ironically, is that the Katrina-ravished Ninth Ward, lying devastated behind its new, higher, fortified levee, may now be one of the safer places to live in the city...