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...picture shows how safe Cambridge really is. Most of its crime rates are far below the national average. An online news survey rated Harvard the safest urban Ivy League, mostly due to Cambridge's crime rate...
...escape from a sinking car or figure out how to get down from the top of a moving train, but that doesn't mean we can't worry about it. Y2K was a bust, but anxiety is still America's leading psychiatric disorder. "We're living in about the safest times in human history, yet people seem to be more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next...
...Cocaine is big business, and its only political allegiance is to those who guarantee it the speediest, safest passage to market. With Colombian government economists calculating that the drug accounts for some 5 percent of the country's GNP, it's a safe bet that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion...
...Mayor David Dinkins, who happens to be black, was in office), thousands more black and Hispanic New Yorkers would be dead. The tactics of squads like the Street Crimes Unit, to which the four officers who shot Diallo belong, have dramatically reduced crime and helped make New York the safest large city in the United States. The greatest tragedy of the Amadou Diallo case is that it has further alienated the black community from the officers who are meant to protect it at a time when statistics indicate that police/inner-city community relationships should be at their best...
Despite what you may have read recently about front seats collapsing onto back seats when certain car models get in accidents, the safest place in the car for any child up to the age of 12 is still the back seat. Babies up to 20 lbs. and one year old should ride in rear-facing infant seats. Wait until your baby is one before switching him to a front-facing seat, even if he is more than 20 lbs. Never place a child under age 12 in the front seat with a working passenger-side air bag. These devices...