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* Where to find statistics about drug use? (Derek Jennings, ''Independent'' Opinion column, 2005-10-19: "Current figures put white drug use at almost 75% of the total, yet black people still make up almost half the prisoners, despite being only around 12% of the general population."),  
 
* Where to find statistics about drug use? (Derek Jennings, ''Independent'' Opinion column, 2005-10-19: "Current figures put white drug use at almost 75% of the total, yet black people still make up almost half the prisoners, despite being only around 12% of the general population."),  
 
* Why do U.S. schoolbuses stop at every house now? How large is this trend (just here in Durham, the whole U.S., worldwide, or what?)
 
* Why do U.S. schoolbuses stop at every house now? How large is this trend (just here in Durham, the whole U.S., worldwide, or what?)
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==Sources Found==
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* [http://www.humansecurityreport.info/ Human Security Report] 2005: "documents a dramatic, but largely unknown, decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade"

Revision as of 20:47, 21 October 2005

This is a place where questions of fact can be asked; as the answers become available, they will be recorded and catalogued (either here or on a separate page linked from here).

Questions

  • Where to find statistics about the crime rate? (specifically in the U.S., but also worldwide)
  • Where to find statistics about drug use? (Derek Jennings, Independent Opinion column, 2005-10-19: "Current figures put white drug use at almost 75% of the total, yet black people still make up almost half the prisoners, despite being only around 12% of the general population."),
  • Why do U.S. schoolbuses stop at every house now? How large is this trend (just here in Durham, the whole U.S., worldwide, or what?)

Sources Found

  • Human Security Report 2005: "documents a dramatic, but largely unknown, decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade"