A 'most dangerous' list ... and St. Louis isn't on it. Another most-dangerous cities list is out, and ... you can relax, St. Louis, because you're not in the top 10. This time, it's Forbes Magazine crunching the FBI's annual crime numbers, but the magazine uses a different formula to rank cities than the one that has rankled St. Louis city officials for a generation. The magazine doesn't actually compare cities at all — it compares metropolitan areas.
And that's a methodology that puts places like bucolic Anchorage, Alaska, ahead of St. Louis. And ... Unlike other indices, the magazine is considering only the FBI's four categories of violent crimes: homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, but not property crimes. Here's the rationale stated by author John Giuffo: Because small fluctuations in crime numbers can produce outsize jumps in rates in smaller metropolitan areas, we looked at MSAs with a population of 200,000 or more.
Japanese Folktales. Selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman © 1998-2008 Contents Return to D. The Two Frogs Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the other dwelt in a clear little stream which ran through the city of Kyoto. So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kyoto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other.
They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes. "What a pity we are not bigger," said the Osaka frog; "for then we could see both towns from here, and tell if it is worth our while going on. " "Oh, that is easily managed," returned the Kyoto frog. This idea pleased the Osaka frog so much that he at once jumped up and put his front paws on the shoulder of his friend, who had risen also. "Dear me! " The Mirror of Matsuyama Source: F. "Buried! " Foreign Language Vocabulary, Grammar, and Readings.
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