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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...disappointed by the way you trivialized the drug war as a key issue before the "shadow conventions" organized by Arianna Huffington [NATION, July 31]. Since 1980, while the number of violent offenders sent to prison has doubled, the number of drug offenders imprisoned has increased elevenfold. In 1998, 1.5 million people were arrested for drug offenses. More than half a million of those arrests were for marijuana possession. Plenty of people other than Huffington care about this issue. VINCENT SCHIRALDI, DIRECTOR Justice Policy Institute Washington...
...million Number of children in the U.S. without health insurance...
...study from research firms Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications helps explain Goosehead's appeal. Since 1999 the number of teen girls online has more than doubled, to 4.4 million. And for the first time in the U.S., more women are logging on than men. While the percentage of teen girls is increasing the fastest, women 55 and older are a close second. What's the lure? Girls chat on sites like teen.com and cosmogirl.com while working moms save time shopping at sites like babygear.com and walgreens.com Older women frequent health and family sites, such as merck-medco.com and familyhistory.com...
...owned HMOs. But in general he has been eager to take the insurers' side. Lieberman is one of a handful of Democrats who support limits on the liability of corporations and, in turn, their insurers for injuries caused by products and services. He has sponsored bills to reduce the number of lawsuits by workplace victims of asbestos and to eliminate legal claims for pain and suffering by car-accident victims in return for lower insurance rates. He also fought for procedural hurdles and caps on suits resulting from Y2K failures...
...million Number who are eligible for free or low-cost insurance but remain uninsured...