Issue 0144/11
Star Tribune Tuesday 27th December, 2011
The most important social trend of the past 20 years is as positive as it is underappreciated: the United States' plunging crime rate. Between 1991 and 2010, the homicide rate in the United States fell 51 percent, from 9.8 per 100,000 residents to 4.8 per 100,000. Property crimes such as burglary also fell sharply during that period; auto theft, o...
The Irish government is to provide nearly 7 million euros in funding for scores of research grant.
Ireland's Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, made the announcement on Thursday. The ...
The Boy Scouts of America National Council has resolved to accept gay members. Do you agree with this policy?
We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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