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That last, striking statistic has turned into an N.R.A, rallying cry. Thrown on the defensive, Handgun Control has countered that Florida's rate for all violent crime went up 18% during the same period. And last week the University of Maryland released contradictory numbers: it reported three Florida cities as...
But after all the ups and downs, after the roller coaster of a lifetime, one statistic alone will tell anyone who asks how the 1994-95 season went: its record. Oh, if numbers could talk, what volumes they would speak:
And, looking at the game stats a bit closer, you see that Cornell committed 40 fouls to Harvard's 19. Usually, that statistic is the other way around.
Heyzer told the audience that poverty usually has a "female face," citing the statistic that women make up 60 percent of the world's one billion people in poverty.
The fact is that access to the new technology generally breaks down along traditional class lines. Wealthy and upper-middle-class families form the bulk of the 30% of American households that own computers. Similarly, wealthier school districts naturally tend to have equipment that is unavailable to poorer ones, and...