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...appears, is for the enactment of prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...
Last March, U.S. astronauts made five of the most challenging spacewalks ever attempted in order to give the venerable Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life. The new digital camera and solar generators they installed boosted Hubble's optical power tenfold, essentially making it a new telescope with unprecedented reach and clarity...
During the past decade and a half, the amount of money poured into television advertising by the pharmaceuticals has risen approximately tenfold and anti-depressant use has exploded, Rodefer said...
While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...Diddy made cameos, as did a coterie of men in full-length furs who sipped Cristal from gold chalices. The whole thing cost $100,000, a rounding error compared with what would be spent on the album's first video. With any luck, it would all come back tenfold...