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n a ship is called a she. │
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il upon them and they consider│
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art max calorie listing. This │
│ is what your daily caloric intake shoul
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d be. (-5600 calories per wk) │
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THING you want, only you must │
│ count the calories and eat the amount y
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ou can afford to. │
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lowing proportions: │
│ As an example let's say you are a 5'7"
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medium frame female. Your │
│ daily caloric intake should be: 1090 ca
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lories...of that: │
│ 1st Meal: 1/3 your daily calories (3
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64 calories) - 7 am (ish) │
│ 2nd Meal: 1/3 your daily calories (3
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64 calories) - 12 pm (ish) │
│ 3rd Meal: 1/6 your daily calories (1
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81 calories) - 5 pm (ish) │
│ 4th Meal: 1/6 your daily calories (1
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81 calories) - 8 pm (ish) │
│ This order of quantity and timing is ve
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ry important for proper diet. │
│ 5: Take a multi vitamin/mineral DAILY (Pre
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ferably high in B complex!!) │
│ 6: Weigh yourself ONLY ONCE A WEEK! More c
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an be discouraging! │
│ 7: Faithfully fill out forms required dail
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y & weekly! │
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│ 8: From the Exersize chart, find an activi
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ty you can do daily for 30 │
│ to 90 minutes to burn off 330 calories
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minimum. (Multiply the per │
│ minute figure by 60 to determine a 1 ho
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ur exersize) This will burn │
│ a minimum of 2310 calories per week. A
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dded to the 5600 from the │
│ calorie reduction, that is 7910 calorie
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s lost per week, or 2.25 lbs. │
│ During the first week I do not recommen
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d you attempt to surpass this │
│ figure, as you will lose water weight a
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nyway. As the time goes on & │
│ your body adjusts to the new routine, y
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ou may alter your eating and │
│ exersize habits to increase weight loss
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. It is NOT safe however to │
│ go under 1000 calories per day! Keep th
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is in mind as you adjust the │
│ plan to fit yourself.
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│ 9: Always do 15 minutes of warm-up and coo
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l-down exersizes to keep from │
│ hurting your muscles and ligaments!
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│ 10: Remember: If you start to feel weak or
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strange/ill, cease the diet │
│ IMMEDIATELY!
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│ NOTE: I am NOT a physician, and am merely r
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elating to you what I have │
│ found works for me. The information
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I have suggested comes from │
│ numerous books on nutrition and diet.
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You should always check │
│ with your physician before starting A
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NY diet or exersize plan!!! │
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│ HINTS & TIPS:
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│ * When you get the munchies, try sprinkling
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garlic POWDER (or some like │
│ substance) over UNBUTTERED popcorn. This
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is a low-cal, filling snack! │
│
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│ * When sitting in front of the TV, try ridi
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ng your exersize bike, or │
│ doing leg lifts. This helps limber the b
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ody at a reasonable pace. │
│
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│ * Purchase, or check out at your local libr
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ary, books on calorie counting│
│ and nutrition. Decide for yourself what
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works for you. │
│
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│ * Keep lots of fruits and vegetables on han
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d for meals & munching. │
│
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│ * Eat breadstuffs in the earlier parts of t
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he day. The carbohydrates │
│ will help your body keep going.
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│
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│ * Take vitamins with last meal (or snack) o
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f the day. Since your body │
│ repairs itself at night, vitamins probabl
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y help most at that time. │
│
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│ * Don't get discouraged, you didn't gain it
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all in 1 day either! │
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│ DAILY CALORIE COUNTER FORM: (Print 14 copies!
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) DATE:_______________________│
│ Items Eaten:
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│ SECOND MEAL: ├───────────────────────────────
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│ Time: ├───────────────────────────────
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│ especially quiet. Norm could tell her though
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│ house and the young woman in it. He didn't k
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│ Norm truly didn't believe in ghosts. He'd se
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│ certain what he'd experienced was merely beca
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│ anticipation of seeing a ghost. He was certa
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│ hallucination and nothing more. Chris, on th
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│ were far more things in life than one could e
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│ The teens all said their good-byes as they mo
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│ homes. Chris was anxious about the events of
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the evening. She was │
│ reasoning out how she could talk with her mot
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her about everything that │
│ happened without letting her know that they h
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│ but went to the house instead. Slowly she en
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│ best to change her attitude, so she didn't gi
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│ "Hi honey, how was the movie," Joyce asked as
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her daughter walked │
│ through the front door. Joyce had been sitti
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│ television on, but she was waiting more for h
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│ than watching the television.
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│ "Oh, it was so-so. Sorta strange really." Ch
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ris tried to sound casual │
│ about the whole thing.
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│
│
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│ "Oh, what was it about?" her mother pressed,
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sensing something was wrong │
│ but not certain as to what.
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│
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│ "It was just a dumb movie Mom, gosh I can't r
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│ it. It wasn't that good." Chris walked out o
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f the front room towards │
│ the kitchen. She reached the refrigerator, o
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pening it she peered in, │
│ searching for something but she wasn't certai
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n what. She finally │
│ settled on the bottle of milk and pulled it o
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ut. │
│
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│
│ "Christine, what's really going on?" Joyce st
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ood watching Chris pour │
│ herself a glass of milk.
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│
│
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│
│ "Whatda mean Mom? Nothing's goin' on." Chris
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said, trying to brush her │
│ mother's questions aside. She knew if her mo
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ther tried to understand │
│ and showed her any major concern she would br
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eak down and tell her the │
│ truth. She also knew that if she did that ev
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eryone would probably end │
│ up getting into trouble for going to that old
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│ movies.
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│
│
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│
│ "You know exactly what I mean," Joyce didn't
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miss a beat. "You didn't │
│ go to a movie tonight did you? Where did you
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and your friends go?" │
│
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│
│ "I told you Mom, we went to the movies. The
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movies were boring and we │
│ came home right after, that's it." Chris trie
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d to drink her milk quickly │
│ and retreat to her bedroom. She stood there
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gulping her milk and │
│ thinking of the fact that she would not have
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come into the kitchen for │
│ milk if she hadn't wanted to tell her mother
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what was going on and where │
│ they had actually gone. She hesitated a mome
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nt then glanced back at │
│ her mother.
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│
│
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│
│ "I don't think you are telling me the truth C
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hristine," Joyce insisted. │
│ She didn't want to push too hard and drive he
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r daughter away from her. │
│ They had, even with the teen years coming on,
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always had an open line of │
│ communication.
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│
│
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│
│ Chris felt the urge to run from the room, she
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knew it would only be a │
│ matter of time before she broke down and told
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her mother what was really │
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│ going on. Slowly she moved towards the kitch
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en table and sat down. │
│ Joyce took the hint and she walked to the tab
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le and sat opposite Chris. │
│
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│
│ "Mom, I've gotta tell ya this, but you have t
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o promise me it will be │
│ just between you and I." Chris knew she could
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trust her mother to keep │
│ it a secret, even from her friends, who happe
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ned to be the parents of │
│ all of Chris's friends.
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│
│
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│
│ "Ok, I'll give you that promise, I'll keep it
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just between us." │
│
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│
│ "Good. If you wanna get mad at me, that's fi
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ne. If you wanna ground │
│ me, that's fine too, and I'd understand it, b
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ut I can't tell you any of │
│ this if you plan on mentioning it Ray's, Jerr
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y's, Billy's, or Norm's │
│ parents." Chris laid out her promise complet
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ely now. │
│
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│
│ "I know I shouldn't promise this, but I will
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if its the only way I'm │
│ going to find out what's going on," Joyce tol
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d her daughter. "Just one │
│ question, how angry am I going to be?"
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│
│
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│
│ "I don't know Mom. I'm not even sure you'll
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│ you'll be concerned." Chris smiled at her, ho
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ping her mother wouldn't be │
│ angry but intrigued, as Chris is.
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│
│
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│
│ "Ok, I'll try to brace myself." Joyce smiled
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at Chris. "I don't like │
│ getting angry with you. I would rather just
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talk with you and discuss │
│ things instead of getting ticked and arguing.
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" │
│
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│
│ "Yeah, I know," Chris told her. "Well, in th
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e first place we used going │
│ to the movies as an excuse. We didn't go to
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the movies and had no │
│ intention of doing so." Chris stopped, waitin
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g for her mother to say │
│ something, but Joyce bit her bottom lip, forc
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ing herself to remain │
│ silent. "Anyway, we went over to that old ho
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use on Market Street, you │
│ know which one, the old three story house wit
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h most of the windows │
│ broken out of it."
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│
│
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│
│ "Yes, I know the house," Joyce answered, "som
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e people say that old place │
│ is haunted."
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│
│
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│
│ "Right, that's the one," Chris interrupted he
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r mother. "Mom," Chris got │
│ strangely quiet now as she spoke, "it is haun
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ted. We went into it │
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│ tonight and you won't believe what we saw."
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│
│
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│
│ "Oh gawd Chris, you shouldn't have gone into
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that house, it isn't safe." │
│ Joyce insisted.
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│
│
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│
│ "I know, its not safe, because it really is h
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aunted." Chris said matter │
│ of factly.
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│
│
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│
│ "Now wait a moment," Joyce cleared her throat
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as she spoke, "that's not │
│ what I meant when I said it isn't safe. That
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house has been in │
│ disrepair for a number of years and it can't
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be safe from a structural │
│ stand point. Some say it could fall down in
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a good wind." │
│
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│
│ "That's just not true Mom. I've been inside
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that house and it is as │
│ firm as can be. The floorboards don't even c
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reak or anything. The │
│ stairs don't have one single squeak in them.
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It is safe, from a │
│ building stand point. But it isn't from the
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stand point of ghosts." │
│ Chris fell silent for a moment, her head bent
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down. She glanced up to │
│ her mother's face, not lifting her head, then
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almost sheepishly said, │
│ "Do you believe in ghosts Mom?"
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│ "Ghosts, well yes, I guess I do. I've read a
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lot about them. I've even │
│ gone to some seances and things like that, so
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yes, I believe in ghosts." │
│
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│
│ "Well Mom," Chris seemed to regain some energ
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y now and looked directly │
│ at her mother's face, "we saw two ghosts toni
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ght. One was a young │
│ woman, the other a man. The young woman seem
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ed very unhappy and the man │
│ angry about something. The man was dressed i
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n a police uniform and the │
│ woman a full length dress, but not a gown, ju
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st a dress. The man tried │
│ to kill the woman. When I got angry with him
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and demanded he stop, a │
│ picture and its frame flew through the air an
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d hit me on the back. Then │
│ we got outta there."
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│
│
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│
│ "Did you get hurt?" Joyce showed her clear co
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ncern for her daughter's │
│ well being.
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│
│
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│
│ "No, it hurt for a moment but then it disappe
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ared. I was more angry │
│ than hurt. I wasn't even afraid. I was just
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angry." │
│
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│
│ "Honey," Joyce said as she moved to the chair
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│ know it is useless for me to tell you not to
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│
│ The things that happened tonight will probabl
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y only incite you to go │
│ back regardless of what I say. But if you in
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sist upon going, you must │
│ promise me that you will tell me and allow me
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to join you and your │
│ friends next time. I really should," Joyce's
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voice turned from soft to │
│ firm, "I really should ground you. You lied
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to me, then tried to avoid │
│ telling me the truth even after you knew I kn
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ew you had lied. Plus you │
│ went someplace other than were you said you'd
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be going. That definitely │
│ warrants grounding." A long pause followed Jo
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yce's last words, "But, I │
│ think I can understand why you did what you d
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id. I don't approve of it, │
│ but I understand it. Just promise me you won
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't go there again without │
│ me or some other adult going with you."
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│
│
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│
│ "Ah geez Mom, I don't know how the others wil
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l react to me bringing my │
│ mommy along," Chris said, trying to make her
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mother see it was sort of │
│ kid like for her to have to bring her mother
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with her. │
│
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│
│ "I don't care what they think. That's the co
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ndition you've been given. │
│ Either that or you can be grounded for three
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weeks. Which will it be?" │
│ Joyce had turned from friend and confidant to
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mother once again. │
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│ "Ah," Chris hemmed and hedged for a few momen
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ts, knowing full well she │
│ was going to agree with what her mother had l
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aid out. She wasn't that │
│ upset by the idea anyway. She really would e
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njoy having an adventure │
│ like this with her mother. "I'll agree Mom,
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I guess I don't have much │
│ choice. But one thing, can we go back to tha
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t house, with you along, │
│ to see if we can figure out what is going on
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there?" │
│
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│
│ "We'll see Christine, but just now I think yo
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u better head off to bed," │
│ Joyce was now excited about the thought of go
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ing to that house with her │
│ daughter. She had always heard it said that
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the house was haunted but │
│ had never had the nerve to go into the house
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herself. │
│
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│
│ "You aren't goin' to tell anyone else are you
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Mom?" Chris asked. │
│
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│
│ "No, no I'm not. You aren't goin' to lie to
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me anymore are you │
│ Christine?"
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│
│
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│
│ "No, no Mom, I won't, I promise."
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│
│
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│
│ "Ok, off to bed with you. We'll talk more ab
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│ Chris left the kitchen after putting her empt
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y glass into the sink. She │
│ knew she'd have trouble getting to sleep, but
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suddenly felt tired. It │
│ wasn't long, after her head hitting the pillo
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w, that she was fast │
│ asleep.
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│
│
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│
│ While Chris slept, Joyce took out an old book
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she had on the shelf in │
│ her den. It was a book about the towns histo
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ry. Something she had │
│ gotten a long time ago when she was involved
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with the historical │
│ society. She began to thumb through it, look
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ing for specific │
│ information about the house on Market. She k
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new she had seen something │
│ in the book about the house and the attempts
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of the historical society │
│ to gain it as a landmark for the city. Final
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ly she found the page she'd │
│ wanted. Yes, she'd remember correctly, the h
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istorical society had given │
│ up their attempts when they discovered that a
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police officer, who lived │
│ in the house, had killed his young bride in t
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he house, just three days │
│ after their wedding.
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│ continued week after next...
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│ Debbie thumbed her pocket calendar noticing t
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he season. Thanksgiving was │
│ less than 2 weeks away. Thanksgiving - 4 days
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of loneliness followed by a │
│ series of smile-covered lies. After that orde
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al she could look forward to │
│ Christmas depression & New Years' self-loathi
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ng. She dropped the calendar │
│ in her purse; she had seen enough.
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│
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│ "I hate the Holidays."
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│
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│ No, the Christmas season hadn't been good to
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her, not for the last several │
│ years; not since she's given up men as a voca
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tion. This year's festivities │
│ might just prove to be the worst of the lot.
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Debbie faced probable unemp- │
│ loyment, excruciating loneliness (brought on
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by her self-imposed celibacy),│
│ and certain depression. She already had the "
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holiday blues." │
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│ "1 problem at a time," she told herself. "Fir
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st objective - keep my job!" │
│
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│
│ With a bit of new found confidence, she start
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ed for the office, an hour │
│ early but she had missed work the day before,
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on the boss's orders to stay │
│ home. She wasn't looking forward to the day.
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│
│ ***
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│ "What are you going to do, KR?"
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│
│
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│
│ The economy was down; the president-elect was
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sure to cut Defense spending,│
│ which had been her largest source of revenue,
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the staff was complaining, │
│ the stock holders wanted dividends and the Ch
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airwoman was grilling her on │
│ projected sales. What was she going to do? Sh
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e was going to tell them all │
│ to take a flying...
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│
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│ "Can't ignore this one, KR," Gabriel said fro
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m behind her cup of coffee. │
│
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│
│ The boss lifted her eyes noticed how heavy th
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ey were. 7:30 am, she thought,│
│ & I'm tired. This was ridiculous; nobody shou
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ld have to face a room full of│
│ hyperactive mental maniacs on 1/2 a night's s
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leep. She shot a glance across│
│ the limousine, took in the Chairwoman reclini
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ng against her crushed velvet │
│ upholstery and tried to ignore the piercing g
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rey stare reaching through the│
│ Royal Kona's rising steam. West Los Angeles c
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rawled by outside the tinted │
│ power windows.
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│
│
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│ "Gab', I was up all night researching new sou
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rces of possible revenue. Can │
│ this wait?"
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│
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│ The Chairwoman of the Board, Eeeek Internatio
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nal wasted only one word."No,"│
│ she snapped, stating the obvious, her glare f
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illing in the details. The │
│ Office Manager wasn't doing her job and the t
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eam needed that position │
│ covered; it was that simple. The boss sighed.
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"Who else could handle all of│
│ the work we heap on her desk?" she asked defe
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nsively. │
│
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│
│ Gabriel sipped her Royal Kona, swallowed leis
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urely & said calmly, "Bee, │
│ Charity, Demi, Razor, Uni, you, me, possibly
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even Stella, who has no │
│ clerical experience whatsoever, could do a be
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tter job than Debbie. The │
│ only employees who couldn't do a better job a
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re the guys, who seem to │
│ feel such employment is beneath them, Chauvin
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ist pigs that they are." │
│
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│
│ The boss sighed again, deeply, and wished som
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ebody had told her that │
│ corporate management could feel like backstab
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bing a friend. She was not │
│ cut out for this type of thing.
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│
│
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│
│ Gabriel nodded agreeably, as though they had
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been discussing clothing │
│ accessories or something equally as pleasant.
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"Do it today," Gabriel │
│ said, "before it gets worse."
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│
│ ***
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│ Debbie had been at her desk for 2 hours & all
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she had managed to do was │
│ shuffle the files into neat stacks. Beyond th
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at, she didn't have a clue │
│ what she was supposed to be doing. She knew t
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hat she was to have compiled a│
│ comprehensive cost-production-sales profile b
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y that morning, but she had no│
│ idea how to do that. It had something to do w
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ith reading and analyzing all │
│ of the reports on her desk - which she was tr
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ying to do! - but the reading │
│ alone would take her well into next year. Jus
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t trying not to think about it│
│ made her brain hurt.
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│
│
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│
│ "How's it going?"
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│
│
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│
│ Debbie jerked her head up to see the boss sta
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nding over her, a strained │
│ smile pinching her face.
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│
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│ This was it, Debbie thought; she'll ask me fo
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r the report then fire me. │
│ The manager pushed her lips together, blinked
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her eyes & felt the tears │
│ burn her cheeks.
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│
│
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│
│ "Hey! Hey!" KR said laying a hand on Debbie's
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shoulder. "Relax yourself! │
│ You're letting this job get to you!"
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│
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│ It wasn't only the job, Debbie thought; it wa
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s life, HER life, stealing │
│ away from her without a thing she could do ab
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out it. It was reports she │
│ couldn't understand and profiles she couldn't
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read and mounds of paper │
│ that wouldn't let her breath and loneliness a
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nd men she hated for the │
│ loneliness of Holidays without even a friend
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who would call just to say, │
│ "I miss you." It was an office full of genius
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es who rattled off screens │
│ of intelligent-sounding documents filled with
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over-whelming numbers of │
│ statistics & it was the scorn with which they
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turned and walked away. │
│
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│
│ The men would look at her, leer at her, but n
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ever ask how she was doing or │
│ offer to help or explain or try to be friendl
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y. The women were worse; they │
│ would have nothing to do with her.
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│
│
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│
│ Letting it get to me? Letting it get to me? D
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ebbie thought. Yes, it's │
│ getting to me! Who else is standing in my sho
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es? Who else gives a darn if │
│ I spend Thanksgiving in front of an "Outer Li
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mits" marathon or Christmas │
│ in front of a closed curtain? Who else SHOULD
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it get to? Who? WHO? │
│
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│
│ "Tell you what," the boss said, patting the d
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esigner padding under Debbie's│
│ fluffy sweater, "I'll get you some help. How
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would you like that?" │
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│ Tears welled up behind the ache in Debbie's e
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yes. She had been crying too │
│ much lately; she had to get herself under con
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trol. Her job was at stake │
│ and maybe more - maybe her sanity.
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│
│
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│
│ "I'll even let you choose!" the boss said alm
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ost jovially. "Pick anyone in│
│ the office! Anyone! And I'll put them at your
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disposal! Who would you like?│
│ Demi? She's a wiz with statistics! She could
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show you how to crunch the │
│ numbers in no time! Or Razor! She pumps out r
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eports like a bookie! Or even │
│ Bee! Though she may not like to be away from
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her precious research, she can│
│ compile data faster than any known human."
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│
│
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│
│ Debbie realized that the boss was trying to s
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ave her job, but the manager │
│ couldn't stem the flow of tears. Get control,
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she told herself, too much │
│ is riding on this! But she couldn't stop the
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flood. She was too deep into │
│ self-pity and couldn't pull herself out.
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│
│
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│
│ "Maybe you'd rather have one of the guys?" th
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e boss asked helpfully. │
│
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│
│ One of the guys? One of "them"? The thought o
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f their derisive smiles, │
│ their rolling eyes, sent the manager into new
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spasms of crying. │
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│ One of the guys? They'd probably offer to sen
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d the work out to a temporary │
│ service & then expect her to go out with them
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. This was a no-win situation │
│ for Debbie. If she accepted help from anyone,
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it would be like admitting │
│ she couldn't do the work. She sat up and rubb
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ed her eyes, fighting to gain │
│ control of her emotions.
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│
│
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│
│ "Well, think it over," the boss suggested, "&
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let me know what you decide."│
│
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│
│ When KR left, Debbie calmed down enough to se
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e again, but the job'd still │
│ be near impossible. A light tap on her should
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er brought her head around. │
│
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│
│ It was the Krausmeyer. The little man stood h
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uddled into himself, his body │
│ language almost apologizing for his presence.
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│
│
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│
│ "What do you want?" Debbie sniffed.
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie shrugged his shoulders, held up a finge
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r as if to say, "Wait a sec! │
│ I'll show you." Then he leaned toward Debbie'
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s desk. │
│
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│
│ "What is it?" Debbie asked.
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│
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│ When Hymie gestured toward the stacks of fold
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ers and held his hands out, │
│
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│
│ Debbie said, "Those are the reports. Team rep
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orts. I'm supposed to be │
│ compiling them."
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie nodded as if to say he understood, then
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he picked up a folder and │
│ pointed to a number. He tapped it as though a
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sking what the number meant. │
│
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│
│ "That's a file number," Debbie told the littl
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e man. "That's how we find │
│ the files in the filing cabinets."
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie lifted a finger as if to say, "That's n
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ot all." Then he gestured │
│ toward Debbie's keyboard.
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│
│
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│
│ "You want to use my computer?" Debbie asked.
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When the little man nodded, │
│ she said, "Go ahead."
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie slid the keyboard close to him and poin
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ted at the number on a file. │
│ Then he typed in a change of directory on the
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computer and when a prompt │
│ asked, "What file?" he typed in the number. T
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he screen filled with data. │
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│ "What's this?" Debbie asked.
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie opened the file folder and pointed at t
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he first page. It was the │
│ same as the screen.
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│
│
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│
│ When she understood what he was showing her s
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he said "How'd you do that?" │
│
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│
│ Hymie tapped in the sequence once again, slow
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ly. │
│
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│
│ "You're importing the reports from the main f
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rame? Thanks, that will help │
│ organize my desk, but I've still got to make
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sense out of all this." │
│
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│
│ Hymie held up a finger. Then he tapped in one
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file number, a 2nd & a 3rd. │
│
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│
│ "What are you doing?" Debbie asked.
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│
│
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│
│ The little man threw out his hands to indicat
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e that he wasn't quiet sure │
│ himself but he was confident enough to contin
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ue. After he had "selected" │
│ the files, he changed directories and tapped
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in a few more commands. The │
│ word "Archives" appeared on the screen.
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│
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│ "These are old files," Debbie said. "Old soft
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ware and outdated programs. │
│ Nobody uses this stuff anymore."
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│
│
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│
│ Again Hymie held up a finger, tapped in anoth
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er set of commands. A program │
│ entitled "DataSort" crowded the screen.
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│
│
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│
│ "What does it do?" Debbie asked.
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│
│
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│
│ Hymie tossed his hands suggesting that he did
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n't know for sure. Then he │
│ moved the cursor to a box marked "Selected Fi
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les" and pressed "enter." │
│
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│
│ The screen came alive with flashing columns a
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nd tables and graphs. When │
│ the software was done, a prompt read, "Hit Sp
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ace Bar to view next page." │
│
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│
│ Hymie waved at Debbie to try the space bar.
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│
│
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│
│ "These are the report statistics," Debbie sai
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d, "cross- referenced and │
│ compiled. Can we pull all of the files into t
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his software package?" │
│
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│
│ Hymie shrugged he didn't know & waved a hand
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to suggest that she try it. │
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│ Debbie looked for a "Help" menu, found it and
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started looking around the │
│ program. "This program was written by the tea
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m in its early years," Debbie │
│ said, reading the copyright screen. "It doesn
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't appear that they marketed │
│ it." She looked up at the little man standing
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next to her. "They're so │
│ smart they probably thought nobody would need
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a program that did the kind │
│ of work they do in their heads. I'll bet they
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forgot all about it!" │
│ Hymie nodded; they probably had.
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│
│
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│
│ "I can use this, Hymie," Debbie admitted. "I
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can use the team's own program│
│ to analyze the team's work!" As she considere
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d the possibility, another │
│ thought entered her mind. "Should I tell them
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?" she asked softly. │
│
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│
│ Hymie raised his finger for the last time and
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placed it across his lips │
│ meaning, "Sshhh! Don't say a word."
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│
│
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│
│ Debbie smiled; hope flooded back into her hea
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rt. She could get her report │
│ done now, in no time! She scrolled through th
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e program's "Help" files, │
│ taking in as much general information as she
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could on the first pass. She │
│ might be able to keep her job after all! And
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she didn't have to ask any of │
│ them for help! She didn't owe anybody - wait
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a minute! she thought. │
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│ There was always a price. Even one's best fri
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ends, deep down inside, │
│ wanted something for their good deeds.
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│
│
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│ What did this little gnome want for his help?
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& how much for his silence? │
│
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│
│ While pondering these questions, the Office M
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anager snuck a peek at the │
│ Krausmeyer and thought she caught him leering
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at her. He was, after all, │
│ a man. He would want something. Better to fin
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d out now, Debbie told │
│ herself, and turned toward her office mate.
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│
│
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│ Hymie Krausmeyer, erstwhile street urchin, ga
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zed down on the flowing piles │
│ of blond hair, into the deep pools of blue da
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ncing in those big eyes, then │
│ he drew his eyes boldly over her feminine cur
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. A forty year old man had │
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│ he did. After doing so, he had a change of
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vere pain in that region. He │
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│ The year is 1885. We find ourselves in San D
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iego, California. A wild, │
│ rough city back in those days. Murders, suic
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ides, and death seem to be the│
│ mainstream of the city. A battle had already
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taken place when some of the │
│ city leaders decided to move the main portion
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of the city from Old Town to │
│ New Town San Diego. Water supplies are not p
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lentiful. Trains are not in │
│ yet, connecting the more northern city of Los
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Angeles with the far southern│
│ city of San Diego. But amidst it all one man
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has a dream that he is seeing│
│ become a reality. The man is E. B. Babcock.
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His dream is to build the │
│ most luxurious hotel in the west. Mr. Babcock
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sets out to fulfill his dream│
│ by purchasing, for $110,000, the island of Co
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ronado and North Island. He │
│ intends to build there. To raise money to he
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lp pay for the building he │
│ will end up selling parcels of land to privat
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e citizens on the islands. │
│ The cost to build this 399 room hotel is over
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one million dollars. He has │
│ no real labor force, as a result, he draws up
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on the immigrants from China │
│ who will work for practically nothing. He be
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gins his task. By 1891 the │
│ hotel is not only open, as a show place of th
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e west, but visited for the │
│ first time by a U.S. president, Benjamin Harr
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ison. Hotel del Coronado is │
│ now a part of the entire country's history, n
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ot merely California's. │
│ Proudly it sits upon the coast of the clear,
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beautiful bay of San Diego. │
│ A bridge now joining the city to her. A wond
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erful place for recreation and│
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│ relaxation. The Hotel is grand, not merely i
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n structure but also in the │
│ manner of treatment of its guests. It is kno
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wn for this. It was also │
│ known for being removed from the woes of the
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city of San Diego. For back │
│ in the 1890s there were many woes. Murders,
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suicides, gambling houses, │
│ drunken brawls, and more plagued the city. H
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otel del Coronado promised a │
│ peaceful time, removed from these afflictions
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of the city. So when a young│
│ woman, aged 24, by the name of Kate Morgan ak
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a Lottie A. Bernard was found │
│ dead on the steps leading to the beach, it wa
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s ruled suicide immediately. │
│ Yet does a suicide victim haunt? If so, why
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would she? Well we will be │
│ traveling down south to the pearl of pacific
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hotels to visit and try to │
│ discover why she haunts and who is actually h
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aunting. │
│ Rumors, soon after Kate Morgan's death, flew
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about the hotel among its │
│ staff that the room she had stayed in was hau
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nted. The year is 1892 and │
│ no one is willing to come forth and testify t
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o what they experienced. │
│ Babcock, though he denied any belief in ghost
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s, would not rent out the room│
│ unless the entire hotel was filled. If the r
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oom was not haunted, why then │
│ did he take this action. Even after Ms. Morg
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an had died, the room was not │
│ rented out for one month. Of course no recor
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ds indicate as to why. │
│ The story: Kate Morgan traveled with her hus
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band Thomas under the name of │
│ Lottie A. Bernard. Thomas used the name Dr.
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M.C. Anderson. Their design │
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│ was one of deception. Kate would play Thomas
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's sister, getting young men │
│ interested in her. When they wished to court
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her she would tell them they │
│ had to have her brother's approval, Dr. M.C.
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Anderson. In order to secure │
│ his approval they would soon discover they ha
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d to play poker with him, │
│ since that was his main past time. Once the
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young suitor was fleeced good │
│ and proper, Lottie (Kate) would drop him and
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move on to the next young │
│ suitor. Thus Kate and husband Thomas managed
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to make a decent enough liv- │
│ ing from this scam. They used alias' because
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of their family names, both │
│ coming from wealthy families who did not wish
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to be marked by their con │
│ game.
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│ Kate Morgan was a 'natural beauty,' according
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to the coroner's report and │
│ remained beautiful in death as in life. A sm
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all, petite woman of 24 years │
│ who soon found herself wanting more than roam
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ing the train ways and stage- │
│ coach paths to earn money. She told Thomas s
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he wanted a house and a family│
│ to go with it. Thomas was not amenable to su
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ch a suggestion but finally │
│ gave into her desires and bought a house in L
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os Angeles. He then would go │
│ out on the road, looking for high stake poker
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games, to earn a living. │
│ When he found no money in this, Kate would wo
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rk as a housekeeper in Los │
│ Angeles, under another alias, to earn the mon
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ey necessary for them to live.│
│ Thomas started traveling more and more and fi
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nally Kate joined him back on │
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│ circuit. But when she discovered she was pre
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gnant she remained behind. │
│ Thomas made a tour of the west, from Iowa bac
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k to Los Angeles, picking up │
│ his wife in route on his way to San Diego. I
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t on the train ride from L.A. │
│ to S.D. that he learned of her pregnancy. Th
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ey quarreled, he left the │
│ train in Orange, CA and Kate went on to stay
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at the Hotel del Coronado. │
│ While she was there, she must have taken a hu
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ge amount of quinine, used to │
│ abort a child back in those days, for she suf
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fered all the symptoms of │
│ quinine poisoning. The large bottle of quini
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ne was found in her room after│
│ her death.
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│
│ Reports state that she went into San Diego, a
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cross the bay by the Coronado │
│ Ferry, purchased a .44 caliber pistol and som
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e shells. She also went to │
│ at least one hotel to inquire about the regis
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tration of Dr. M.C. Anderson. │
│ The next morning she was found dead on the st
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eps leading to the beach just │
│ off the veranda of the Hotel del Coronado. A
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small bullet wound to her │
│ right temple, no exit wound, blood on her han
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d and the gun, which lay two │
│ steps below her hand. Did she kill herself?
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Is she the one who haunts? │
│ If so, why does she do so? We hope to find s
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ome answers in the coming week│
│ and will report them here in Eeeek BITS! for
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your reading pleasure. We │
│ are certainly looking forward to this investi
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gation and hope to communicate│
│ with Kate Morgan or who ever it is that haunt
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s Hotel del Coronado. │
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│ WORLD POPULATION TO INCREASE BY 52% BY 2020
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│ The world population is expected to grow by a
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bout 52% in the next 28 years,│
│ to 8.2 billion by 2020, according to a report
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by the Commerce Department's │
│ Census Bureau. According to World Population
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Profile: 1991, the world's │
│ population numbered 5.4 billion in 1991, more
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than double the 1950 total. │
│ China ranked first in total population with 1
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.2 billion persons followed by│
│ India's 870 million. The total for the 15 rep
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ublics constituting the former│
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llowed by the US (253 million)│
│ & Indonesia (194 million). 10 countries now h
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ave populations of 100 million│
│ or more. Japan leads the world with highest l
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ife expectancy at 79 years, │
│ & the lowest infant mortality rate at 4 per 1
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,000 live births. The report │
│ illuminates the global impact of rapid change
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s in annual growth rates, │
│ infant mortality, life expectancy, contracept
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ive use, & city populations. │
│ Author Ellen Jamison says it "gives us a good
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overall look at how America &│
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at we'll look like 30 years │
│ from now." Other highlights from the report
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│ o Regionally, Sub-Saharan Africa is the fa
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stest-growing area & is │
│ expected to more than double its populat
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ion density in 30 years from │
│ 61 persons per square mile in 1991 to 14
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0 persons per square mile in │
│ 2020.
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│ o Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest birth
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& death rates, 45 births │
│ & 14 deaths per 1,000 population. The a
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verage woman there has more │
│ than 6 live births. Worldwide, there ar
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e an average 26 births per │
│ 1,000 population each year, & 3.4 births
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per woman in her lifetime. │
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│ o In developing countries, use of contrace
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ption varies from about 5% of │
│ married women of reproductive age in Uga
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│ South Korea. The US rate is approximate
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│ to most other developed countries.
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│ densely settled, with over 2,200 persons
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│ that's expected to nearly double by 2020
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. By contrast, the former │
│ Soviet Union had only 34 persons per squ
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are mile in 1991, due to its │
│ vast land area. Worldwide, average popul
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│ persons per square mile.
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│ densely populated with 143,000 persons p
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│ US cities, N.Y. & L.A., have 11,000 & 9,
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│ over increases sharply as educational attai
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│ round, full-time was $26,779; for an Associ
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│ $33,817; for a Bachelor's degree or post-gr
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│ $40,906 & $49,734.
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│ incomes were much lower than that for men a
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│ attainment level.
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│ * Women who worked year-round, full-time & we
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│ earned an average of $18,837; for an Associ
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│ degree, $29,087; & those attaining a Master
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mpling variability & other │
│ sources of error.
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│ EDUCATIONAL ATTAINM
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│ Persons 25 years and over
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│ Less than 9th grade
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│ 9th to 12th grade, no diploma
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22,841,507 │
│ High school graduate
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│ Some college, no degree
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│ Percent high school graduate or higher
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│ Percent bachelor's degree or higher
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│ NATIVITY AND PLACE OF
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│ Native population
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228,942,557 │
│ Foreign-born population
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│ Entered the U.S. 1980 to 1990
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│ The user should note that these data are ba
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│ sampling variability, and there are limitat
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│ Fear of Insurance Loss Haunts Disability Fam
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│ MD, 11-12/US Newswire: A big fear of parents
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of children with epilepsy is │
│ now that the family will lose insurance cover
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age because of the child's │
│ condition. Calls to the Epilepsy Foundation o
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f America, now running at the │
│ rate of some 30,000 per year, reflect that co
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ncern. "People call us about │
│ many things but we're seeing a big increase i
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n calls about health insurance│
│ - where to get it, how to keep it, & what the
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y can do if they lose it," │
│ said C.Lawson, chair of the Epilepsy Foundati
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on's Public Info & Education │
│ Committee. Epilepsy is classed as a "pre-exis
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ting condition" by insurance │
│ companies. More insurers, even in group cover
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age, are excluding families in│
│ which a member has a pre-existing condition.
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"It's not just the affected │
│ person can't get coverage for epilepsy," Laws
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on explained. "That would be │
│ bad enough. But what's often happening is tha
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t no coverage at all is │
│ available for that person, & in worst cases,
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the whole family has to go │
│ without coverage because of 1 member. In toda
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y's world when an appendicitis│
│ or an accident or even a bad attack of the fl
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u can cost from 1 to several │
│ thousand dollars, lack of insurance is truly
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frightening." Epilepsy's a │
│ disorder of the brain where normal electrical
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activity becomes temporarily │
│ disrupted producing seizures of various kinds
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. 2.5 million Americans have │
│ the disorder. The majority of people with epi
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lepsy do well with treatment, │
│ about 20% have frequent seizures & associated
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│ Network to Bring Education to Psychiatric Ho
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│ VA, 11-11/U.S. Newswire: Interactive Medical
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Networks, an ACCME accredited │
│ provider of continuing Medical Education & su
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bsidiary of Westcott Communic-│
│ ations, today said PSYCHNET, a highly focused
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distance-learning educational│
│ support network for state psychiatric institu
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tions & their medical staffs. │
│ Featuring nationally recognized experts, a se
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ries of 90-minute interactive │
│ programs will allow psychiatric hospitals to
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receive valuable education for│
│ their medical staffs. The satellite tv networ
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k will furnish high-quality │
│ CME without burden to today's financially str
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etched state psychiatric │
│ hospitals. Participating institutions will re
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ceive PSYCHNET at no charge. │
│ Funding is provided through educational grant
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s from the pharmaceutical │
│ industry. Initial sponsors include McNeil Pha
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rmaceutical & Abbott Labs. │
│ As a remote-learning service PSYCHNET will tr
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ansmit educational programming│
│ from Westcott's broadcast studio in Dallas di
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rectly into 150 psychiatric │
│ institutions & 800 community hospitals across
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the country. The network will│
│ deliver monthly CME programs in '93, includin
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g sessions on depression, │
│ schizophrenia, & bipolar disorder. The first
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program will address schizo- │
│ phrenia, with an emphasis on relapse preventi
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on, as part of a 3-part series│
│ exploring clinical, economic, & family perspe
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ctives of depot therapy. Each │
│ program will last approximately 90 minutes. A
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ll hardware(satellite dish & │
│ monitor equipment etc), will be lent at no ch
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arge to participating places. │
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│ APHA Denounces Court's Refusal to Review Deni
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│ WASHINGTON, 11-10/U.S. Newswire:
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│ The American Public Health Association (APHA)
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today denounced the Supreme │
│ Court's refusal to review a lower court allow
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ing H & H Music to cut off │
│ health insurance benefits to an employee with
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AIDS. │
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│ Calling the lower court ruling blatant discri
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mination against one kind of │
│ disease, APHA urged the court to hear another
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case and reverse these │
│ benefit denial decisions.
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│ "The court's decision demonstrates the failur
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e of the private insurance │
│ system," said APHA President Joyce Lashof, ad
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dressing a Capitol Hill │
│ rally. "In light of these benefit denial dec
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isions, no American can feel │
│ secure that private insurance will be there t
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o protect against a │
│ catastrophic illness. This decision shows wh
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y we need a comprehensive │
│ national health system."
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│ Pointing out that H & H Music decision is bas
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ed on a particular type of │
│ disability, the association urged that the is
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sue be reexamined in light │
│ of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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│ Says Congress Should Skip Pay Raise Until Bud
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│ IL, 11-12/U.S. Newswire: Cost of living adjus
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tments, or COLAs, for members │
│ of Congress should be made contingent on ther
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e not being a deficit in the │
│ budget of the US government, according to US
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Rep.Tom Ewing. Ewing said he │
│ will introduce legislation in Jan that will p
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rohibit COLAs for members of │
│ Congress unless the federal budget's balanced
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. "How can Congress justify a │
│ cost of living increase when it can't get its
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own fiscal house in order?" │
│ Ewing said. "At the very least members of Con
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gress should lead by example. │
│ Simply put, if Congress can't balance our cou
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ntry's budget, it doesn't │
│ deserve a salary increase." Ewing's proposal
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says that congressional cost │
│ of living adjustments scheduled to take effec
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t in a calendar year would not│
│ be implemented "if the budget of the United S
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tates government was in │
│ deficit for the last fiscal year ending befor
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e the first day of such │
│ calendar year." According to Ewing, such a la
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w would put a "high premium on│
│ fiscal responsibility." "Balancing the budget
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is kind of like the old │
│ saying about the weather - everybody talks ab
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out it but nobody ever does │
│ anything about it," Ewing said. "With this l
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aw in place, Congress would │
│ be forced to balance the government's checkbo
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ok or forgo its own cost of │
│ living increase. "What the deficit spenders i
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n Congress need is a heavy │
│ dose of back stiffener," Ewing said. "The be
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st place to start is the │
│ wallet of every member of Congress."
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│ Women's Ordination Conference Congratulates C
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│ US Newswire: The Women's Ordination Conferenc
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e, an international movement │
│ of women & men working for the ordination of
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women in the Roman Catholic │
│ Church to a renewed priestly ministry, joyful
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ly congratulates members of │
│ the Church of England for their decision to o
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rdain women. National │
│ Coordinator R.M.Fitzpatrick said: "I was fill
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ed with tears of joy, but I │
│ am embarrassed & deeply saddened that the Vat
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ican tried to stop this │
│ historic decision. That the Pope declared the
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vote to be 'a grave obstacle'│
│ to ecumenical relations is extremely disturbi
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ng. I think it reveals that │
│ the Vatican is moving further out of touch wi
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th the teaching magisterium │
│ of the church. Recent polls show that the vas
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t majority of US Catholics │
│ favor the ordination of women priests as well
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as women bishops. The │
│ churches must remain open to discernment of w
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here the spirit of God is │
│ calling women to minister. The Roman Catholic
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Church needs the full │
│ participation of women in all areas of minist
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ry. To block this ministry of │
│ mutuality may even be fighting God, as Gamali
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el said during early Church │
│ disagreements in the Acts of the Apostles: "S
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o in the present case, I tell │
│ you, keep away from them & let them alone; be
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cause if this plan or this │
│ undertaking is of human origin, it will fail:
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but if it is of God, you │
│ will not be able to overthrow them - in that
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case you may even be found │
│ fighting against God!" (Acts: 5:37-39).
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│ Set 6-Year Limit For House Committee & Subco
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│ DC, 11-13/US Newswire: Rep.J.Porter is urging
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House GOP members to back a │
│ change in House rules to limit members to 6 y
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ears of service as the chair │
│ of a committee/subcommittee. Porter said it "
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would take the weight out of │
│ seniority" & could be adopted without amendin
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g the Constitution. Porter │
│ said that while the rules adopted by the Hous
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e at the beginning of each │
│ session are important & largely control its p
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rocedures, there is little │
│ interest in the debate outside the chamber. B
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y including his proposal, │
│ Porter is hoping to focus national attention
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when the House adopts its │
│ rules on 1-3. He's working with House Rep. Le
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ader B.Michel who backs the │
│ proposal & Porter recently sent letters to ne
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w/returning House Republicans │
│ seeking their support when the Republican Con
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ference convenes in Dec to │
│ formulate its rules package for the new Congr
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ess. Since Democrats retained │
│ control of the House & can pass their set of
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rules, Porter is suggesting an│
│ unprecedented GOP strategy - offer the Democr
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ats' rules verbatim with a │
│ single change: no member can serve as the cha
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ir of a committee/subcommittee│
│ for longer than 6 years. Porter noted that me
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mbers of both parties, many of│
│ whom ran on a platform advocating term limits
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, would find it difficult to │
│ oppose the reform. He acknowledged that if th
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e chair term limit passes it │
│ would have to be re-adopted every 2 years to
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remain in force, but said that│
│ "future congresses will find it exceedingly d
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│ ADL Urges Supreme Court to Take Hate Crimes
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│ US Newswire: The ADL has filed a brief urging
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│ 2 hate crimes cases & overturn state court de
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cisions striking down legis- │
│ lation based on an ADL model statute. "When c
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riminal actions are prompted │
│ by demonstrated bigotry," said M.Salberg, nat
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ional chairman, "we believe │
│ they should be punished with enhanced penalti
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es." According to R.Lansner, │
│ ADL National Legal Affairs Committee chair, i
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f the court takes the cases, │
│ it could remedy 3 major, negative consequence
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s of the RAV decision: │
│ 1) potential derailment of hate crime legisla
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tion across the US - because │
│ of misinterpretations of RAV & other decis
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ions by the Supreme Courts of │
│ WI & OH, the people in these states have b
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een deprived of an essential │
│ weapon in the fight against racial & ethni
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c violence; │
│ 2) perception that the anti-discrimination la
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ws may be unconstitutional - │
│ like hate crimes laws, anti-discrimination
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laws are concerned with the │
│ intentional selection of a victim because
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of race, religion, ethnicity │
│ or sexual orientation, some believe RAV re
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nders these questionable, too;│
│ 3) conflict that exists now between several s
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tates on an interpretation of │
│ the First Amendment to the Constitution as
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it applies to hate crimes │
│ legislation - OR's Supreme Court recently
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reached a result diametrically│
│ opposed to WI & OH, & the conflicts extend
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to the lower courts in at │
│ least half a dozen other states.
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│ Center for Public Integrity Reaction to Clint
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│ Statement of Exec Dir of The Center for Publi
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c Integrity: "It is heartening│
│ that Bill Clinton has begun to try to limit t
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he influence-peddling in his │
│ administration, even before taking office. Sp
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ecifically, the transition │
│ process is such a gray area, between the camp
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aign & government, that self- │
│ imposed guidelines are the only guidelines fo
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r the ethical conduct of an │
│ administration-in-waiting. As a candidate, Cl
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inton relied very heavily on │
│ the advice of lobbyists & according to the Ce
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nter for Responsive Politics, │
│ lawyer-lobbyists were his largest single dono
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r group. For a candidate who │
│ railed against special interests & influence
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peddling, some of Clinton's │
│ early transition appointments have already co
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me from that milieu. The │
│ American people are fed up & want more than m
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ere cosmetics. How can you │
│ place a lifetime ban on former officials lobb
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ying for foreign governments │
│ but not restrict lobbying for foreign corpora
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tions? When you prohibit a │
│ former official from lobbying his or her old
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agency for 5 years, how do you│
│ define agency? Mike Deaver a few years ago di
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vided the White House into 10 │
│ or so compartments. What about enforcement? W
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hen was the last time a lobby-│
│ ist was successfully prosecuted in DC? When w
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as the last time an executive │
│ order was prosecuted? A president-elect surro
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unded by influence-peddlers he│
│ supposedly abhors proposing ethics guidelines
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that are not comprehensive or│
│ enforceable, is like trying to go whitewater
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rafting on the Titanic." │
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│ Two Philadelphia Men Arrested For Carjacking
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│ US NEWSWIRE: In the first armed carjacking ca
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se in the US under the │
│ recently enacted federal Anti-Car Theft Act o
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f 1992, Bob C. Reutter, the │
│ Special Agent in Charge, Philadelphia Office
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of the Federal Bureau of │
│ Investigation & Michael M. Baylson, US Attorn
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ey for the Eastern District │
│ of Pennsylvania, announced the arrest of Crai
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g Paul Watson, & William Shaw.│
│
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│ In a complaint & warrant, Watson & Shaw are c
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harged with armed robbery of │
│ a car while in possession of a firearm in vio
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lation of the Anti-Car Theft │
│ Act of 1992. This statute which went into eff
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ect on 10-25-92, creates the │
│ new federal crime of armed carjacking based o
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n the increased incidence of │
│ carjackings nationwide. On 10-27-92, Watson &
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│ approached a man & woman in a parking lot as
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the couple was entering their │
│ BMW. Watson & Shaw placed guns in the victims
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' backs, ordered them to walk │
│ to a commercial trash dumpster & ordered them
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at gunpoint to climb up into │
│ the dumpster. The assailants locked the dumps
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ter, threatened to kill the │
│ victims if they got out of the dumpster, & dr
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ove off. The victims managed │
│ to get out of the dumpster & call the Tredyff
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rin Police Department. │
│
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│ An intensive investigation in the neighborhoo
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│ Shaw will be arraigned before a federal magis
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│ LOWER HOUSEHOLD INCOME & INCREASED POVERTY R
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│ The official '91 income & poverty #s show the
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effects of slow economic │
│ growth during the year. Real median household
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income decreased to $30,126. │
│ The total # of persons below the officially d
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efined national poverty figure│
│ was 35.7 million producing an official povert
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y rate of 14.2 points from the│
│ '90 figure. The '91 rate was lower than the 1
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5.2% poverty rate peak in '83 │
│ following the '81-82 recession. Data in these
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reports are from the March │
│ '92 Current Population Survey of appx. 60,000
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households nationwide. As in │
│ all surveys the data in these reports are sub
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ject to sampling variability &│
│ response errors. For example the $1,077 decli
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ne in median household income │
│ has a 90% confidence interval of $285. Thus t
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he actual dollar decline could│
│ be between $792 & $1,362, & the 14.2% poverty
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rate has a 90% confidence │
│ interval of 0.4. So the actual rate could ran
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ge between 13.8% & 14.6%. The │
│ # of poor families increased 613,000 to 7.7 m
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illion. The increase in the # │
│ of poor families headed by a female with no s
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pouse present accounted for │
│ 64.1% of the net increase which reached an ov
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erall rate of 11.5%. Persons │
│ in poverty are composed of 27.1 million in fa
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milies, 800,000 in unrelated │
│ subfamilies & 7.8 million unrelated individua
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ls. The official income & │
│ poverty definitions are based solely on pre-t
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ax money income excluding │
│ capital gains. The figures do not include the
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│ such as employer provided health insurance, f
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│ Drawn from the Census Bureau's three annual r
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eports on income, poverty, & │
│ the effect of benefits & taxes, these 1990-91
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national trends were not │
│ consistent across all groups & regions. Exam
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ples: │
│ * Declines in real median household income oc
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curred in all regions except │
│ the Northeast whose $33,467 figure was not
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statistically different from │
│ 1990. The Midwest dropped 3.9% to $29,927;
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the South decreased 3.2% to │
│ $27,178; & the West declined 2.6% to $32,25
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3. │
│ * Black ($18,807) & Hispanic households ($22,
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691) showed no significant │
│ change in real median income over the same
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period while White ($31,569) │
│ & Asian & Pacific Islander ($36,449) househ
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olds declined by 3% & 9%, │
│ respectively.
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│
│ * Poverty rates for Blacks (32.7%), Hispanics
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(28.7%), & Asians & Pacific │
│ Islanders (13.8%) did not change significan
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tly from 1990. However, the │
│ poverty rate for Whites increased from 10.7
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% in 1990 to 11.3% in 1991. │
│ The majority of poor persons in 1991 were W
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hite (66.5%). │
│ * Real median earnings of male year-round, fu
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ll-time workers increased by │
│ 2% to $29,421 while their female counterpar
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ts showed no significant │
│ change in their $20,553 earnings in 1991.
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As a result, the female-to- │
│ male earnings ratio, which reached an all-t
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ime high of 0.72 in 1990, fell│
│ to 0.70 in 1991.
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│ * The Percentage of persons without health in
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surance coverage in 1991 was │
│ 14.1, essentially unchanged from 1990.
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│
│
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│
│ INCOME
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│
│ * Sluggish economic conditions decreased real
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per capita income. Real per │
│ capita income was $14,617 last year, a 2.5%
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drop from 1990. │
│ * Families maintained by women with no spouse
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present showed a 5.4% decline│
│ in real median family income between 1990 &
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1991 to $16,692. This was │
│ much higher than the 1.4% drop experienced
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by married-couple families to │
│ $40,995. Overall, real median family incom
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e declined 2.4% to $35,939 in │
│ '91. There's no statistically significant d
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ifference between the declines│
│ in median family income for married-couple
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families & total families. │
│ * The $24,691 median income of households out
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side metropolitan areas showed│
│ no significant change from 1990 in real ter
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ms. Those inside metro areas │
│ experienced a real decline of 3.6% to $31,9
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75. │
│
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│
│ POVERTY
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│
│ * The average poverty threshold for a family
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of four in 1991 was $13,924. │
│ Average national thresholds ranged from $6,
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932 for a person living alone │
│ to $27,942 for a family of nine or more per
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│ * Children are overrepresented among the poor
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while elderly are slightly │
│ underrepresented. Children under 18 were 40
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.2% of the poor. The elderly │
│ made up 10.6% of the poor in 1991.
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│
│
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│
│ * The poverty rate for the South, while highe
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st of the four regions at 16%,│
│ did not increase from 1990 to 1991. Povert
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y rates for the other regions │
│ increased to 12.2% for the Northeast, 13.2%
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for the Midwest, & 14.3% for │
│ the West.
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│
│
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│
│ * In 1991 almost 40% of poor persons 15 years
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& over worked & 9% worked │
│ year-round, full-time. The number of poor
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in these categories remained │
│ unchanged from 1990.
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│
│
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│
│ * 28.6% of the poor reported they had no medi
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cal insurance in 1991. Among │
│ the poor, Hispanics were less likely to be
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insured than Blacks or Whites.│
│
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│
│ * Of the poor, 72.9% received some type of me
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ans-tested assistance, while │
│ 43.6% received cash assistance through such
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programs as Aid to Families │
│ with Dependent Children, 27.1% received no
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assistance of any type, either│
│ in the form of cash or noncash benefits.
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│ BENEFITS & TAXES
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│
│ * The report compares 15 different definition
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s of income based on variation│
│ of the types of benefits & taxes included.
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Regardless of the definition │
│ used, real median household income was lowe
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r in 1991 than in 1990. │
│ * For 14 of the 15 definitions, income inequa
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lity did not significantly │
│ change from 1989 to 1991.
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│
│ * Under each of the 15 definitions, the perce
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ntage of persons in poverty │
│ was higher in 1991 than in 1990.
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│
│ * Using an income definition to count the val
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ue of means-tested government │
│ noncash transfers such as food stamps, rent
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subsidies, & free & reduced- │
│ price school lunches resulted in an estimat
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e of 11.4% as the poverty rate│
│ in 1991. Under the official income definiti
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on, the poverty rate was 14.2%│
│ in 1991.
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│
│ * The average value of means-tested cash tran
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sfers received by households │
│ with a female householder was $4,333 in '91
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compared with $4,410 in '90, │
│ $4,852 in '83 & $5,511 in '79. There's no s
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tatistically significant │
│ difference between the 1991 and 1990 figure
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s. │
│ ---------------------- From The US CENSUS BUR
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EAU ------------------------- │
│ As in all surveys, the data in these reports
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are subject to sampling │
│ variability & other sources of error.
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│ Table 1: Average Household Income Per State f
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or 1989-1991 Page 92 │
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│
From The US Censu
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s Bureau.
│
│ State: Income: State: Incom
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e: State: Income: │
│ --------------------- -------------------
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-- --------------------- │
│
Connecticut $43,048
Minnesota
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$31,808
Indiana $27,865
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│
│ New Jersey $41,127
Wisconsin
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$31,708
So. Carolina $27,849 │
│
Alaska $40,371
Utah
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$31,055
No. Carolina $27,765
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│
│ New Hampshire $39,926
Colorado
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$30,990
North Dakota $26,643 │
│
Maryland $39,001
Ohio
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$30,981
Idaho $26,522
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│
│ Hawaii $38,762
Arizona
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$30,851
New Mexico $25,819 │
│
Massachusetts $37,708
Wyoming
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$30,725
Oklahoma $25,623
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C
│
│ Virginia $36,720
Pennsylvania
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$30,702
South Dakota $25,575 │
│
California $34,871
Oregon
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$30,680
Montana $25,070
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C
│
│ Washington $34,180
Kansas
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$29,992
Kentucky $25,054 │
│
Illinois $33,392
Maine
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$29,162
Louisiana $24,586
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│
│ Delaware $33,303
Nebraska
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$29,032
Tennessee $24,277 │
│
New York $33,103
Georgia
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$28,728
Alabama $24,021
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│
│ Nevada $32,845
Iowa
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$28,613
Arkansas $23,574 │
│
Rhode Island $32,412
Texas
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$28,527
West Virginia $23,342
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│
│ Michigan $32,372
Missouri
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$28,504
Mississippi $20,793 │
│
Vermont $31,979
Florida
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$27,904
Total US Avg. $31,026
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│
From The US Cens
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us Bureau.
│
│ State: Poverty: State: Povert
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y: State: Poverty: │
│ -------------------- ------------------
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-- -------------------- │
│ Mississippi 23.8%
Indiana
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14.1%
Nevada 10.7% │
│
Louisiana 22.0%
Michigan
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13.9%
Virginia 10.6%
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│
│ New Mexico 20.9%
Idaho
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13.7%
Wyoming 10.6% │
│
Alabama 19.0%
Missouri
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13.6%
Vermont 10.5%
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│
│ Arkansas 18.4%
North Dakota
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13.5%
Massachusetts 10.2% │
│
Kentucky 17.4%
South Da
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kota 13.5%
Iowa 10.1%
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│
│ West Virginia 17.2%
Illinois
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13.3%
Hawaii 10.0% │
│
Tennessee 16.9%
North Ca
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rolina 13.2%
Utah 9.8%
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│
│ Texas 16.8%
Maine
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12.5%
Maryland 9.3% │
│
South Carolina 16.5%
Colorado
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12.1%
Washington 9.3%
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│
│ Georgia 16.0%
Minnesota
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12.0%
Wisconsin 9.2% │
│
Montana 15.8%
Ohio
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11.8%
New Jersey 9.0%
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│
│ Oklahoma 15.8%
Oregon
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11.3%
Rhode Island 8.2% │
│
Arizona 14.2%
Alaska
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11.2%
Delaware 8.1%
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│
│ California 14.2%
Kansas
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11.1%
New Hampshire 7.1% │
│
New York 14.1%
Nebraska
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10.9%
Connecticut 5.8%
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│
│ Florida 14.1%
Pennsylvania
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10.8%
Total U.S. 13.5% │
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│ Elderly Myths Dispelled By Census Bureau
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│ A report issued by the Commerce Department's
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Census Bureau focuses on the │
│ growth & diversity of our elderly population
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as well as the implications │
│ of an aging society. It puts to rest some fam
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iliar myths about America's │
│ growing elderly, such as "most elderly people
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are poor & sick." For example│
│ the report shows that only about 1/4 (26% in
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1989) of noninstitutionalized │
│ persons aged 65 to 74 consider their health t
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o be fair or poor while among │
│ the same group 75 years old & over, the share
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is about 1/3 (32%). It isn't │
│ until people reach their mid-80's that a sign
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ificant proportion of elderly │
│ need help with everyday activities. For examp
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le, more than 1 in 5 persons │
│ (22%) 85 years & older live in a nursing home
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& 45% need help with everyday│
│ activities. It is the 85 & over who are expec
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ted to be the fastest growing │
│ part of the elderly population into the next
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century. Because of the growth│
│ of the 85 & over population a 4-generation fa
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mily will become more common. │
│ More of the young-old will have very old, fra
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il relatives who need care. │
│
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│
│ Cynthia Taeuber author of 65 Plus in America,
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notes in regard to another │
│ stereotype of the elderly, the income picture
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is mixed. In general, the │
│ elderly have more assets than the nonelderly.
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Some 35% of the elderly were │
│ poor in 1959. But by 1990, that had dropped t
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o 12% for all persons 65 years│
│ & over. Poverty rates varied considerably amo
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ng subgroups of the elderly. │
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│ For example the poverty rate in '90 for White
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elderly was 10%, for Hispanic│
│ elderly it was 23%, & for Black elderly, 34%.
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"Social Security makes a big │
│ difference," Taeuber says. "Without it, 47% o
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f today's elderly would be │
│ poor." The 153-page report details the growth
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of the elderly population. │
│ The elderly population is 10 times larger now
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than in 1900. It would more │
│ than double between 1990 & 2030 as the baby-b
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oom generation (persons born │
│ 1946 to 1964) reach age 65 beginning in 2011.
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│
│
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│
│ The report includes comparisons of the charac
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teristics of this country's │
│ elderly population with other nations, the so
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cial, economic, & health │
│ characteristics of the nation's elderly, thei
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r geographic distribution, & │
│ information about data quality.
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│
│
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│
│ Preparation of this & other reports on the na
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tion's aging population are │
│ supported in part by the National Institute o
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n Aging, a component of the │
│ National Institutes of Health. According to
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Dr. Richard Suzman, head of │
│ the NIA's Office of Demography of Aging, "The
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aging of the population is │
│ changing American society in fundamental ways
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. Researchers must make every │
│ effort to understand these demographic change
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s in order to help plan for │
│ the future, especially for rapidly growing #s
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of very old individuals." │
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│ INCOME
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│ * Between '90 & '91, real median income decli
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ned for all families regard- │
│ less of type.
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│
│ * In real terms the median income of married-
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couple families declined by │
│ 1.4% to $40,995 bewteen '90 & '91, while th
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at of families maintained by │
│ men with no wife present dropped by 6.3% to
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$28,351. Families maintained │
│ by women with no husband present experience
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d a 5.4% decline to $16,692. │
│ * Between '90 & '91, the median income of Bla
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ck married-couple families │
│ declined by 5.4% to $33,307, compared with
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a 1.2% decline for White │
│ married-couple families ($41,506). The medi
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an of Hispanic married-couple │
│ families ($28,594) was unchanged.
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│
│ * The Black-to-White income ratio for married
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-couple families (.80) did not│
│ change significantly between '90 & '91. The
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Hispanic-to-White (.69) & │
│ Hispanic-to-Black (.86) income ratios for m
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arried-couple families also │
│ remained unchanged.
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C
│
│ * The real median income levels of families m
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aintained by Black & White │
│ females with no husband present declined by
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9.7% & 3.9% bewteen '90 &'91,│
│ while the comparable median for Hispanic fa
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milies maintained by women │
│ with no husband present was stable.
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│
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│ POVERTY RATES
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│ * The # of poor families increased to 7.7 mil
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lion in '91 from 7.1 million │
│ in '90. The rate for families increased to
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11.5% from 10.7 in '90. │
│ * Between '90 & '91, the rates were unchanged
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for married-couple families, │
│ 6% & families with a male householder, 13%.
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However, the rate of families│
│ with a female householder increased signifi
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cantly from 33.4% to 35.6%. │
│ * Between '90 & '91, the number of poor marri
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ed-couple families increased │
│ from 3 mil. to 3.2 mil. The number of poor
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female householder families │
│ grew from 3.8-4.2 mil. Poor families with a
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male householder was 392,000.│
│ * The increase in the # of poor female househ
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older families accounted for │
│ 64% of the net increase in poor families. I
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n '91, female householder │
│ families represented 12.7% of nonpoor famil
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ies & 54% of poor families. │
│ * Overall, White families in '91 had a lower
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poverty rate than Black or │
│ Hispanic families. However, White married-c
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ouple families were the only │
│ group to show a statistically significant i
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C
ncrease in poverty rates; │
│ the rates increased from 5.1% in '90 to 5.5
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% in '91. │
│
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│
│ As in all surveys, the data are subject to sa
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mpling variability & other │
│ sources of error.
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│
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│ 1/3 Of Students 15-17 Fall Behind In School
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│ By ages 15-17, 35% of all students are enroll
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ed below their appropriate │
│ grade in school or have dropped out, accordin
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g to the Census Bureau. 29% │
│ of teenage females were behind in school or d
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ropped out compared with 40% │
│ of teenage males in 1990, the annual school e
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nrollment report says. In '90,│
│ 22% of all children ages 6-8 were enrolled be
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low their appropriate grade │
│ (for their age) compared with 15% in 1980. "A
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great deal of falling behind │
│ in school occurs at an early age for Black &
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Hispanic students," report │
│ author Robert Kominski says. The number of ch
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ildren enrolled in nursery │
│ school or kindergarten increased from 6.7 mil
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lion in the fall of '89 to 7.3│
│ million in '90. Family income played a signif
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icant role in determining │
│ whether children were enrolled in nursery sch
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ool, said Kominski. Among │
│ families earning less than $20,000, 30% of ch
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ildren ages 3-4 were enrolled │
│ in nursery school compared with 38% from fami
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lies earning $20,000-$39,999 │
│ & 59% from families earning $40,000 & more. O
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f the 3 & 4 year olds enrolled│
│ in nursery school, 35% attended public school
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, 66% attended private school.│
│ Family income also played a determining role
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in whether children attended │
│ public or private nursery school classes, acc
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ording to Kominski. While 66% │
│ of families with incomes of less than $20,000
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enrolled their children in │
│ public nursery schools, only 15% of families
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with over $40,000 in incomes │
│ used public nursery schools.
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│
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│
Persons 16 years and over
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1,800,056
│
│ Not in labor force
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722,905 │
│
Total Households
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891,665
│
│ Median household income (dollars) in 198
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9 $21,147 │
│
Per capita income (dollars) in 1989
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$10,520
│
│ Total population of state
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2,292,037 │
│
Population BELOW poverty level
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C
437,089
│
│ TOTAL Percentage of People Below Poverty
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Level 19.1% │
│
Persons 18 years and over
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16.8%
│
│ Persons 65 years and over
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C
22.9% │
│
children under 18 years
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25.0%
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│ children 5 to 17 years
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23.8% │
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children under 5 years
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28.5%
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│ Unrelated individuals
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36.1% │
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All families
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14.8%
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│ With related children under 18 years
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20.3% │
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With related children under 5 y
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ears 25.3%
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│ Female householder families
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41.2% │
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With related children under 18
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years 52.1%
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│ With related children under 5 years
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66.9% │
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│ ARKANSAS PORTRAIT FROM 1990 CENSUS
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│ Population Breakdown By Race:
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│ Total population
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2,350,725 │
│ White
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1,944,744 │
│ Black
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373,912 │
│ American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut
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12,773 │
│ Asian or Pacific Islander
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12,530 │
│ Other race
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6,766 │
│ Hispanic origin (of any race)
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19,876 │
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│ STATE RANKINGS:
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│ Motor Vehicle Accidents per 100,000: 26
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.9 5th of 50 States │
│ Social Security Recipients: 19.2% of po
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p. 3rd of 50 States │
│ Public Aid Recipients: 6.0% of populati
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on 15th of 50 States │
│ Food Stamp Recipients: 9.3% of populati
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on 12th of 50 States │
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