Word: thirds
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...result, the guilty often go free. People get away with murder in about a third of the 20,000 deaths identified as homicides each year; other murders go undetected. Misinterpreted evidence can also lead to the innocent being punished. Even worse, people are sometimes jailed for crimes that never occurred. The classic example: when an alcoholic dies after a fight, the police often assume that the assault killed him, but a careful autopsy may show a lethal level of alcohol in the blood. Bungled investigations can also create lasting controversies. Mistakes in the autopsy of John F. Kennedy fueled charges...
...naval fleets or listening for some faint reply down a clogged diplomatic channel to the Middle East. Last week it was George Bush's turn to try urgent appeals and gunboat maneuvers while an angry public fulminated at American impotence. Just six months in office, Bush had become the third U.S. President in a row caught in the same wretched predicament. The latest hostage crisis, however, yielded a gruesome new image of horror: a man, bound and gagged, dangling from a makeshift scaffold...
...next day Iran was still holding to the line that it had no connection to the hostage takers. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted an unidentified foreign ministry official as saying Iran had refused a Bush message about the hostages sent via a third country. "Since the content had nothing to do with Iran," the news agency quoted the official as saying, "the message was not accepted." Tehran's denials were contradicted by an Israeli intelligence report claiming that Obeid had confessed that Hizballah's terrorist activities were directed by the Iranian embassies in Beirut and Damascus...
Still, the report offers little hope that the drug crisis will ease soon. The number of "intensive" (weekly) cocaine users is up a third, to 862,000 people; nearly 300,000 of them may be using cocaine daily. Those estimates could be low, since the pollsters surveyed only households, not transients or people in hospitals and prisons. Said drug czar William Bennett: "We're now fighting two drug wars": a manageable fight against casual users and a more intense battle against crack addiction. "On this second front," he added grimly, "we are not winning...
...study, conducted in Sweden, involved 23,244 women who were taking various types of estrogen, one of the main female sex hormones, after menopause; a third of them were also on progestin, an artificial form of the hormone progesterone. The researchers compared these women with others who had not taken hormones. The results: after nine years the women who took a kind of estrogen called estradiol had about twice the breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy. The women on estrogen and progestin had a higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer...