Reference Desl: "The Society for Amateur Scientists is building a program that will link scientists and engineers of all stripes with young people who share their passion for science, through a highly structured program called LABRats. The kids and mentors will come, largely, from the same communities. Our long-term goal is to build a nation-wide community of science enthusiasts that could one-day include a million young people and which could be sustained indefinitely, much like the Boy Scouts. Only instead of building this organization around the teaching of camping skills, LABRats will center itself around the teaching of an in-depth and engaging hands-on science program."
news : "December 29, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Startling new Army statistics show that strife-torn Baghdad - considered the most dangerous city in the world - now has a lower murder rate than New York.
The newest numbers, released by the Army's 1st Infantry Division, reveal that over the past three months, murders and other crimes in Baghdad are decreasing dramatically and that in the month of October, there were fewer murders per capita there than the Big Apple, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
The Bush administration and outside experts are touting these new figures as a sign that, eight months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, major progress is starting to be made in the oft-criticized effort by the United States and coalition partners to restore order and rebuild Iraq.
'If these numbers are accurate, they show that the systems we put in place four months ago to develop a police force based on the principles of a free and democratic society are starting to ...
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