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0 Comments | Insight on the News, August 5, 2002 | by John Elvin

* At least 150 students have been seriously injured, sometimes with disfiguring burns, in school science labs during the last four years, and the number of serious injuries probably is much higher than that (Associated Press story about the lack of standards for protecting students in laboratories and the lack of safety training for science teachers).

* Utah was the leading state for bankruptcy filings in 2001, beating out the previous year's leader, Tennessee (American Bankruptcy Institute findings reported by the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. The nation set a record with nearly 1.5 million bankruptcy filings last year; this year looks to be another record-breaker).

* Australia now has 9,000 witches, making witchcraft the country's fastest-growing religion (census figures reported by the Herald Sun of Victoria).