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In Gun Debate, a Misguided Focus on Mental Illness

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In the National Institute of Mental Health's E.C.A. study, for example, people with no mental disorder who abused alcohol or drugs were nearly seven times as likely as those without substance abuse to commit violent acts. It's possible that preventing …
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Mexico's Papers Shy From Covering the Drug Gangs Behind Continuing Violence

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One obstacle to covering organized crime in Mexico is the lack of reliable official statistics and police reports. In 2011, El Siglo reported, officials in Torreón simply erased 100 murders from the official court record. In response to such problems …
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Fire safety raid: where there's smoke there's fire

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In the so-called unfortunate apartments (with alcoholics, drug addicts or mental patients as residents) fires happen at least twice a year. The tasks of district housing departments include not only cleaning building surrounding grounds, but also …
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From Space Shuttles to Cancer Drugs, Prof Uses Stats to Better Understand the …

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He has used it to gauge the effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, analyze the intelligence of non-human primates, probe grade inflation at American universities and develop more effective tests for evaluating cancer drugs. "Statistics is the heart …
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