Want to create a cure for addiction with an 80-98% success rate? Easy-peasy. Just don’t count treatment drop-outs in your statistics-- a fact that numerous programs have capitalized on to sell themselves over the last 50 years. Alternatively, you can only admit addicted doctors to your treatment: but this severely limits your market.
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What U.S. city has the worst crime rate per person? Step on up, East St. Louis, IL, you've done it again! How about the coldest winters? Congrats, Grand Forks, ND! Who has the most murders? Kudos and huzzas, East St. Louis, you've pulled off a double! Care to go for a hat trick with rapes? Aw, sorry, you're going to have to settle for second behind Berryville, AR!
City-Data.com has just released their latest Top 101 U.S. Cities, Counties and Zip Codes Lists, a compilation of surveyed data from thousands of U.S. cities in literally hundreds of categories, from number of casinos to highest temperature difference in a year. There's tons of fascinating tidbits to be parsed from this wellspring of sheer information.
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