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While fireworks usage increased more than 960 percent
nationwide between 1976 and 2006, the fireworks-related
injury rate decreased more than 91 percent. This is
because of stricter safety standards and improved consumer
education.
Georgia
Kentucky
Washington,
DC
In advance of the presidential primaries in South Carolina,
retired Generals and Admirals are traveling here this
weekend to meet with presidential hopefuls and to discuss
policies of prisoner treatment and torture.
Former
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, General
Harry E. Soyster
Lieutenant
General Charles Otstott, USA (Ret.)
Although vaccine-preventable
disease levels overall are at or near record lows, the
fact that there are still many under-immunized children
in Georgia creates the potential for disease outbreak.
With one
year to go until Election Day 2008, AARP South Carolina
today released results of its second survey of 1,000
members who say they will vote in the Republican or
Democratic presidential primary in January.
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