LAS VEGAS — Blustery winds kick up crime as well as debris. In poor parts of Chicago, a week of high winds pushes lots of trash onto the streets, leading to a marked rise in reported assaults the next day, Patrick Sharkey of New York University reported on August 21 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
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