Word: survey
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...whom a lump-sum death benefit was paid, mostly between 1963 and 1997; and as specific as the street maps of Eastern Europe on the Shtetlseeker page of the JewishGen website. Click onto Historical Records of Dukes County, Mass., to see who lived on Martha's Vineyard in 1790. Survey the resources of the Trinidad and Tobago National Library on its website. Contact the Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society, which has a database of more than 500,000 names, including headstone inscriptions from 300 cemeteries in the Canadian province, and for a small fee the group will do a search...
SLOSHED SENIORS Folks 65 and older may be boozing it up more than they should. A major national survey shows that of the 80% of the elderly who drink, 10% report downing five drinks at a time at least once a month, and 5% have that many drinks every time they imbibe. Heavy drinking can pose problems for seniors, especially if they are on medication that interacts with alcohol...
...findings are particularly alarming because they arrived the same week as the results of a survey showing that American children seem to be taking up cigarettes at ever younger ages. The National Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education, based in Atlanta, reported that 4% of fourth-graders, 7% of fifth-graders and nearly 15% of sixth-graders had already smoked. Add to this the more than 3 million teenagers with the habit, and you have a major health problem...
Next in Fritz's survey is the U.S. war with Iraq. In describing the pathetic state of the Iraqi army, he quotes a U.S. official in an Iraqi POW camps saying "We were looking for warriors. Here we got these wimps." All the same, Fritz's summary of the war against Iraqis is sickening in its glorification of the brutality exercised on what he admits to be toothless Iraqi military: "The mission was proof of the last superpower's capacity to halt catastrophe when it summoned the sufficient courage...At no time in history had one ideology and one nation...
These contributed 25 percent of the survey date in the general harassment category in 1997. Shannon said funding cuts meant schools did not report any data this year...