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Then, a breakthrough. Crime rates started falling. Apart from a few bumps and plateaus, they continued to drop through boom times and recessions, through peace and war, under Democrats and Republicans. Last year's murder rate may be the lowest since the mid-1960s, according to preliminary statistics released by the Department of Justice. The human dimension of this turnaround is extraordinary: had the rate remained unchanged, an additional 170,000 Americans would have been murdered in the years since 1992. That's more U.S. lives than were lost in combat in World War I, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq - combined...
Brain Age Games Patients at Duke's mental-fitness lab give high marks to these $20 game sets for Nintendo DS but find their improvement quickly plateaus in such activities as unscrambling letters or counting currency...
...world one convict and Internet exploiter at a time, and I don’t blame them. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger or the Rock, Austin is trying to break into the action hero niche that ex-wrestlers and body-builders seem to fall into after their initial career plateaus. Austin is not a man of many words in the film, but when he does speak, the other characters listen—mostly due to his expert attack moves. What does irk me is that instead of letting the film simply be the adventure that it is—113 minutes...
...figure out how the voicemail system operated, but after that I never received any messages anyway. It was nice to be able to keep in touch with my parents and my boyfriend—that is, when I could. I discovered, in the forests of Minnesota and among the plateaus of Wyoming, that most of the middle of the country is not conducive to the transmittance of cell-phone waves. So now I’m back in Cambridge without a phone, and though occasionally I catch myself admiring the compactness or the brilliant blue buttons of the latest spiffy...
...carry as many tourists as traders over the dunes of A-la Shan. But the storied deserts of the region?the Gobi, the Tengger and the Badain Jaran?still offer a staggering variety of landscapes. Flat stretches of sand and rock alternate with Sahara-like dunes, dramatic canyons and plateaus covered with hardy shrubs. The extreme austerity makes you marvel that the Mongol hordes managed to survive, much less conquer all of Asia...