People I have known: IX
Thursday, December 5, 2002
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Look closely at Jonathan Butt's Dying Embers; he's playing with colored blocks.
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Uh, like... duh!
U.S. States with More Gun Owners Have More Murders
(Reuters) - Homicides in the United States are more common in states where more households own guns, according to researchers. The study findings imply "that guns, on balance, lethally imperil rather than protect Americans," lead study author Dr. Matthew Miller of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, told Reuters Health. "This inference is consistent with previous...studies that have found that the presence of a gun in the home is a risk factor for homicide, and starkly at odds with the unsubstantiated, yet often adduced, notion that guns are a public good," he added.
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Of course this is a big story today and will be linked from everywhere, but I'm putting it here so I can remember to go back and look at this later
U.S. Culture Still Has Fans
(AP) - In the eyes of much of the world, this is America: an inconsiderate lone wolf that has really good entertainment but really bad values, that wants war with Iraq just to get oil but still should remain as the only superpower on Earth. In a broad international survey released Wednesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that the United States is falling out of favor in 19 of 27 countries where a trend could be identified. The dislike was especially striking in Muslim countries.
Complete report- What the World Thinks in 2002:
How Global Publics View: Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America
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