Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While U.S. crime rates have dropped dramatically over the past decade, Japan's are going the other way. Though still much lower than the U.S.'s, Japan's crime rates are the highest they have been in 32 years, with violent crime among juveniles accounting for more than half of all those offenses. In the first six months of 2000, violent crime among juveniles increased 15% over 1999. A high school athlete, 17, attacked his teammates with a baseball bat in June, then biked home and fatally bludgeoned his mother. The month before, a teen broke into a house...
...naive, of course, to credit or blame any President for how the stock market moves during his tenure since so much is beyond his control. Can Clinton really claim responsibility for the Internet? Rightly or wrongly, though, Americans ascribe their fortunes to the party in the White House even if the times more accurately reflect initiatives flowing from a hostile Congress--or at least the gridlock that a hostile Congress sustains...
...famous hubris. Jobs has described it as the perfect computer. Trouble is, it seems to be asking for a perfect human to operate it--no careless fingers, no need to make back-up Zip files, no changing minds about what you've plugged in. Instead of blaming it, though, I feel like apologizing to the digital brain for my flaws. After all, a computer that doesn't stoop to notice its imperfections is so very...
Dark skin doesn't guarantee protection. Though uncommon, melanoma does occur in men and women of African descent--usually on the palms, soles and underneath the nails...
...duel at 200 m with his in-your-face rival Maurice Greene at the Olympic trials. On July 23, Johnson shut down early in the race and Greene pulled up shortly after, two drag racers coming apart at high speed. So neither will compete in the 200 at Sydney, though both will be present and half accounted for. Johnson will run his signature 400, while Greene lays claim to being the fastest man alive...