The New York Times > Accounting of Daily Gun Deaths

Here's an interesting breakdown of the 81 Gun Deaths that occur daily in the US.

On the much delayed reinvention

I have been very slow to get off the mark and move further forward on the redeployment of this site. One issue has been that native support for a feature I wanted is not available. Another constraint has been time.

But I am still going to press forward -- look for more changes here soon.

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650,000 Civilians dead in Iraq

Last month the BBC reported that the government's own scientists advised ministers that the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable, following a freedom of information request by the reporter Owen Bennett-Jones.

This paper was published in the Lancet last October. It estimated that 650,000 Iraqi civilians had died since the American and British led invasion in March 2003.