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I keep getting a Socket Error connection refused message from the New Scientist site. Could some kind soul copy and paste the article for me.
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Bingley,
I get an error on the feedback portion of the New Scientist site now. I will let you all know when I can get there again.
Thanks Jackie for posting it. The glitch at the original site seems to have gone now.
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Kind Soul reporting in, sir:
9 June 2001
EACH YEAR around this time Feedback's favourite government report appears--the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System report from Britain's Department of Trade and Industry. It gives figures for accidents reported by people admitted to a sample group of British hospitals and then gives extrapolated estimates for the country as a whole.
First the bad news in this year's report, which is based on 1999 data: the toll of accidents caused by tea cosies is up again, with a national estimate of 37 tea cosy injuries, compared with 20 the previous year. Equally alarming, the number of accidents caused by place mats--a menace we have paid too little attention to in the past--is up from 157 to 165 across the country as a whole.
These worrying figures are somewhat balanced by a welcome decline in another area of concern--sponge and loofah accidents. The shocking previous total of 996 nationwide is now down to 787.
But the major causes of concern are still with us. The number of people hospitalised after a trouser accident (up from 5137 to 5945) is worryingly high, while the drop in injuries inflicted by armchairs (down from 18,690 to 16,662) leaves little room for complacency. Hospitalisations caused by socks and tights have also risen (10,773 compared to 9843 previously), while injuries inflicted by vegetables remain unacceptably high at 13,132 compared with the previous year's 12,362.
The number of accidents involving tree trunks has also risen from 1777 to 1810, while leaf accidents have soared from 664 to 1171, with a similar increase in bird-bath accidents from 117 to 311.
Many people will also be shocked by the number of accidents caused by beanbags, which has risen from 957 to 1317. The seriousness of this menace becomes clear when measured against the 329 injuries caused by meat cleavers or the 439 caused by rat or mouse poison.
In fact, the report makes it clearer than ever that our homes are full of unacknowledged dangers. It identifies 3421 people nationwide as having been injured by clothes baskets, while other threats include dust pans (146 injuries), bread bins (91), talcum powder (73), toilet-roll holders (329), clogs (622), false teeth (933) and wellington boots (5615).
As in the past, printed magazines like New Scientist caused far more injuries than chainsaws--4371 compared with 1207.
So remember--you can't be too careful.
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the shocking fact that in the LA County school district almost half of the children scored below average on a reading test.If the group is large enough to follow a normal distribution (bell curve or Gaussian distribution) then of course half would score below average, and half would score above average (mean = median for this distribution)!  This is reminiscent of the argument that "[insert province]'s [insert medical professional] are the lowest paid in the country, and isn't that scandalous?" Well, if they weren't, someone else would be! 
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OK, I am prepared to believe in the vicious and unprovoked nastiness of socks and talcum powder. But exactly how 13,132 people managed to injure themselves with a vegetable is probably more information than I need to know...!
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I need to know what *percentage of them were women. 
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e-mu....you are sooo sick. But in a weird way. :>
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" the shocking fact that in the LA County school district almost half of the children scored below average
on a reading test."
Insert two words writer forgot and it makes sense.
the shocking fact that in the LA County school district almost half of the children scored below the national average
on a reading test.
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" the shocking fact that in the LA County school district almost half of the children scored below average
on a reading test."
WWh noted :Insert two words writer forgot and it makes sense.
the shocking fact that in the LA County school district almost half of the children scored below the national average on a reading test.
And even more sense if you say "...on a reading test in standard English." Many youngsters in LA County are children of immigrants and are probably fluent in a language (or two) other than English/American. Sadly, more than can be said for most of children in many other US school districts.
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