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Article: Did you know? (nation in brief).(syphilis, crime, educated workers)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- May 13, 2003
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* Cases of syphilis, a disease thought nearly eradicated in this country, are on the rise in metropolitan areas such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City and Boston, particularly among homosexuals (Boston Globe report on a disease that can take as long as 90 days for symptoms to develop and thus may be spread unknowingly).
* The United States no longer leads the world in rates for major crimes, a fact many attribute to "get-tough" sentencing and local, rather than regional or ...