The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 14, 2007
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Today: 30,728.7
Yesterday: 30,695.0
The New York Post’s Deceitful Graphics October 14, 2007
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More New York City kids are spending time in the clink.
A staggering 52,571 kids between the ages of 13 and 18 were arrested in 2006 - a 20 percent increase over the 44,148 kids arrested in 2002, according to a report being released at City Hall today by Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión’s office.
Robberies and assaults accounted for 74 percent of all juvenile crimes committed in those five years, including 54,936 felony robberies and 27,638 felony burglaries, the report says.
Teens also committed 698 murders, 1,520 rapes and 12,770 grand larcenies in that time.
“We have a major crisis on our hands,” said Carrión. He said his office used NYPD stats to compile the report.
Okay as far as it goes, right? Nice, objective reporting.
But take a look at the graphic and table that accompanies this story:
Do you think the typical NYC teenage felon looks like this? Do you think the marginal increase in NYC juvenile crime in 2006 over 2002 is driven by teenage felons that look like this?
Related: The Missouri Highway Patrol’s deceptive public service TV ads
Here We Go Again October 14, 2007
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Yet another study by a liberal international body finds that white countries are on top, black countries are on the bottom, and the gradation among white countries is based on their proportions of non-whites.
The United States has a sharply higher rate of women dying during or just after pregnancy than European countries, even some relatively poor countries such as Macedonia and Bosnia, according to the first estimates in five years on maternal deaths worldwide.
The report released by various United Nations agencies and the World Bank on Friday shows that Ireland has the lowest rate of deaths, while several African countries have the worst.
The United States has a far higher death rate than the European average, the report shows, with one in 4,800 U.S. women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth, the same as Belarus and just slightly better than Serbia’s rate of one in 4,500.
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