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...Spike due to the government's stimulus rebate checks...
...violence would only intensify as a demographic surge led to a large group of children entering their teenage years by 2006. In 1996 there were approximately 23,000 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 in Boston. In 2006 there were close to 30,000. The predicted spike in violent crime has become real, but little preparation had been made to meet the challenge. One important political truth which cannot be overemphasized is that no amount of federal, state or municipal intervention can serve as a substitute for effective parenting and adult supervision in the lives of children. Aggressive...
Conservatives harrumph at all this adulation. Before declaring his greatness, we insist that we should wait for him to accomplish something for the country. (Spike Lee didn't even wait for the election. Last summer he said we were soon going to measure time by "BB, before Barack, and AB, after Barack.") In some of his supporters, we see the spectacle of secular-minded folk looking for a messiah. But we risk looking like spoilsports or sore losers, and we can sympathize with the excitement over the first nonwhite President, even if we would have preferred that someone else...
...overall, passenger cars outsold trucks, sport-utility vehicles and minivans for the first time since 2000, according to George Pipas, sales analyst for Ford Motor Co., as consumers reacted to last year's spike in gasoline prices. Truck sales made a modest comeback during the fourth quarter, in part because fuel prices had dropped and truck buyers (a group that includes many small-business owners) had better access to credit than buyers of more fuel-efficient passenger vehicles, automakers...
Ciudad Juarez, reportedly the most dangerous city in the Mexico, is at the forefront of a nation-wide spike in crime rates. Although the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico’s previous ruling political party, had turned a blind eye to traffickers for years, the National Revolutionary Party (PAN) adopted a strict approach against drug trafficking and related crime shortly after it came to power in 2000. In reaction to new policies, particularly President Felipe Calderon’s two-year-old crackdown on drug trafficking violence, noncombatant deaths—numbered at 3,000 since January 2008?...