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The Good News 2004

—America’s kids are all right. Juvenile violent crime (search) has fallen every year – and nearly halved – since 1995. The percentage of high school students who carry weapons to school is at a 10-year low. There were 14 homicides on school campuses in 2002-03, down from 34 10 years earlier. Teen birthrates (search) are [...]

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The year is 1904…

The year is 1904 . One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the US statistics for 1904: The average life expectancy in the US was 47 years. Only 14% of the homes in the US had a bathtub. Only 8% of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute [...]

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Take the Pledge

No matter who wins: I will not proclaim that the president is incompetent for failing to magically resolve some tough geopolitical situation, such as North Korea’s nukes or the Israel/Palestine problem, unless I can propose something with stronger logic to recommend it than the fact that the president isn’t doing it right now. I will [...]

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Night of Terror and the Right to Vote

The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden’s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of “obstructing sidewalk traffic.” They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and [...]

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National ID Card a Bad Idea Says Bruce

Good article on national ID card issues from Bruce Schneier at http://www.schneier.com/essay-034.html ; if you were on the fence or arguing FOR a national ID card, the whole article is worth a read. Here is a short quote: It doesn’t really matter how well an ID card works when used by the hundreds of millions [...]

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TV Kills

From Adam Curry [ http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2004/04/06.html#a5496 ]: I remember as a kid the stories that circulated around television usage. Of course the kid next door was doing poorly at school, his brain was rotting away because he watched too much tv! I think I recall another one about it causing cancer, which was probably too big [...]

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Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance

[ From http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/ ] The future is bright, according to a report co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Commerce (DOC). You can find the 405-page report in PDF format at the link above, but you can read individual sections too. Ed Frauenheim, from CNET News.com, wrote an article about this [...]

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