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[Reese]

At 10:20 AM 3/19/01 +0000, Ken Brown wrote:
 >Reese wrote:
 >
 >> England serves as a fine example here;
 >
 >I'm sure it does, but of what?

Crime rates.

 >I think the murder rate in Britain is about 1/6 of what it is in the
 >USA. (I mean rate, not actual numbers, this is not a 28% paternity
 >error). And the proportion of people killed accidentally is far lower
 >here as well.  We are perhaps a fine example of finding ways to live
 >longer?

Peter Trei just posted a url to an Economist story, and THIS, lists just
about everything BUT murder: 
http://itn.co.uk/news/20010116/britain/06crime.shtml - so what's the rest
of the story?

Reese