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...guns has fallen--down almost 20% from 1993 to 1998. Among children too gun deaths have fallen, tumbling 28% from a peak in 1994 to 1997, when 4,223 kids died by gunshot. But highly publicized shootings like those at Columbine have changed perceptions. A recent TIME/Discovery Channel poll showed that 70% of parents feel violence in schools has increased. What's more, Americans no longer see gun threats against kids as a problem confined to inner cities. While violent crime has fallen sharply in urban areas--down 10% from 1997 to 1998--it has slipped just 1% in suburbia...
...latest national collegiate team rankings were also released Wednesday, and Harvard moved to No. 56 in the poll to maintain the highest ranking among eastern teams...
Things are finally changing. Riesling importers have seen increases of nearly 30% over the past year, and a recent Food Arts poll revealed Rieslings are the top-selling bottles at some of the country's trendiest restaurants, including Aureole and Danube in New York City, and Fifth Floor in San Francisco. New Rieslings from Australia, California and the Alsace region of France are vying for attention alongside the better-known German varieties. Riesling, believe...
Later that month, Seneca members volunteered their time staffing the Coalition Against Sexual Violence's Take Back the Night events. Members have also helped the organizers of the Women's Guide--a new campus publication--to poll students...
...situation where they, too, might be cross-examined could turn those hearings into something a lot more complex than a simple attack on the Clinton administration's tactics. And that could leave the Senate presiding over something of a morass. They may also want to consider a Sunday NBC poll that found 62 percent of Americans believed a congressional inquiry would not be useful...