Did You Know?

0 Comments | Insight on the News, March 13, 2000 | by John Elvin

* Sixty-eight percent of those responding said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wants the Senate seat from New York as a stepping stone to higher office, while 22 percent think she really wants to represent the people of the Empire State. Also, 43 percent say she is using only her first name on signs and bumper stickers as a way to distance herself from Bill Clinton, while 39 percent say it's just a campaign gimmick (Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll).

* Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, some 610 people have been executed while 85 have been found wrongfully convicted and released from death row (statement by Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, upon introducing legislation aimed at capital-punishment reform).

* Pessimism leads to premature death (Mayo Clinic study tracking patients during a 30-year period, based on their answers to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory).