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Crime risk high near airports

For travelers, study is wake-up call
By Gary Stoller USA TODAY The risk of becoming a crime victim is four times greater than the national average in areas outside most of the nations big-city airports, a new study by a crime-forecasting company reveals. The exclusive study, done for USA TODAY by CAP Index, of Exton, Pa., shows that the likelihood of a crime exceeds the national average outside 28 of 29 airports in the most-populous metropolitan regions of the country and all 26 central train stations studied. I travel all the time, and its a wake-up call, says Jon Groussman, Riskiest areas president and COO of CAP Index. Areas around Thefts, assaults and these airports and robberies are the most central train stations have the common crimes in highest risk of neighborhoods outside crime among 29 airports and central train airports and 26 stations, criminologist train stations in Rosemary Erickson says. the most- popAirports and train staulous metropoltions may feel safe to itan regions of the travelers because of a country. greater presence of police and security people. Airports 1. Philadelphia However, travelers 2. Ontario, Calif. should be careful not to 3. Portland, Ore. carry a false sense of se4. Houston, Bush curity outside with them, Intercontinental criminologists warn. 5. Phoenix (Travelers) are relatively secure inside the Train stations airport boundaries, 1. Houston Groussman says. But the 2. Los Angeles 3. Chicago immediate areas theyre 4. Portland, Ore. located in often have 5. Philadelphia neighborhood characteristics that strongly correSource: CAP Index late with increased crime potential. Those areas are often poor neighborhoods, which have a higher likelihood of crime, says Lewis Yablonsky, emeritus professor of criminology at California State University-Northridge. The area outside Philadelphia International Airport has the greatest crime risk of any area outside an airport in the 25 most-populous metropolitan regions, the CAP Index study finds. The lowest risk is outside Pittsburgh International, where the likelihood of crime is nearly half the national average. In Houston, the risk is high outside George Bush Intercontinental airport and the citys Amtrak station. The area outside the station on Washington Avenue has a higher crime risk than any other area near a big central train station, according to the CAP Index study. Other train station neighborhoods with a very high crime risk: those outside Union Station in Los Angeles and Chicago, and Philadelphias 30th Street Station. The area outside the central rail station on Vine Avenue in Riverside, Calif., has the lowest likelihood of crime of the big cities studied, but its still more than double the national average. Areas around airports and train stations arent necessarily the most dangerous areas of a city. Nor does a high risk of crime around transportation terminals mean a city has that same risk or that its more dangerous than another city. CAP Index says its crime-risk determinations are 70% to 90% accurate.

Rupert Murdoch: CEO of News Corp.

Little progress reported on talks to resolve budget issues

Obama pledges to meet every single day with congressional leaders in effort to resolve their differences on spending and tax cuts. Republicans hold to no-tax-increase position. 4A.

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Andy Coulson: Cameron aide tied to scandal.

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Final Harry Potter film has its premiere in New York City

By Gary Strauss, Maria Puente and Matt Krantz USA TODAY If this didnt involve Rupert Murdoch, his sensational-obsessed headline writers likely would be having a field day with the aging media moguls growing misfortunes. Murdoch Meltdown! Sordid Shenanigans!! Hack Attack Fallout!!! But what initially began with allegations that Murdochs British News of the World had illegally hacked scores of Brits phone messages has COVER widened from a sordid tabloid tale involving STORY dered British teen toaamurburgeoning scandal with broad political, criminal, ethical and business ramifications for Murdochs far-flung News Corp. The $33 billion media empires holdings include U.S.-based Fox TV, film studio 20th Century Fox, publishing giant HarperCollins, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Murdoch, 80, folded News of the World on Sunday in what trade journals such as Advertising Age said was an effort to placate British regulators and advertisers upset by the hacking incidents. The incidents include accessing phone messages of 13-year-old kipnap and murder victim Milly Dowler, and those of families of 9/11 victims and British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Camerons former communications chief, Andy Coulson, was arrested last week in connection with alleged

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With the heart of hurricane season approaching, a federal survey shows that many residents of coastal areas underestimate the dangers from the surge of water pushed ashore in a storm. 3A.

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Shut down: The last edition of the tabloid News of the World. payoffs to police when he was editor of News of the World. Fresh allegations of attempted phone hacking against Britains royal family (including Prince Charles), paying British police for tips and illegally accessing medical and financial records of former prime minister Gordon Brown and family members by Murdochs The Sun and The Sunday Times newspapers have caused more damage. That includes the possible unraveling of News Corp.s planned $12.4 billion acquisition of a 61% stake in British Sky Please see COVER STORY next page u

Singer Vehicle Design is taking apart 1990s cars and rebuilding them into new wonders, with souped-up engines and modern materials. 3B.

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Landing of Atlantis is now scheduled for July 21; spacewalk to remove pump is set for today after danger of space junk collision passes. 5A.

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Short but sweet: Twittering your way to college or bank

Scholarships.org, a website to help students search for funding, looks for a tweet highlighting how to use Twitter to improve the world. The At the University of Iowa, a good tweet is worth winner receives $1,400, and the first and second runners-up each get $140. $37,000. At the University of Iowa, the person with the Thats the price of a full scholarship to the universitys graduate business school, and thats best tweet by the July 28 deadline will receive a what a student hopeful can win in a contest that full two-year scholarship to the MBA program. Applicant Seth Goldstein of Columbus, Ohio, takes tweeting to a new level. The university is asking prospective students to submit a 140- submitted his tweet last week and said he was excited for the fun, character tweet in place unique challenge. of a second essay. It is something differThe school and a handent and out of the box, ful of others both corpoGoldstein said. No other rate and academic are MBA schools I have appart of a growing trend. plied to have anything The plan: Use tweeting to like this. make students get to the Jodi Schafer, the Unipoint quickly and to imversity of Iowas director prove their social media of MBA admissions and skills two qualities that By Koji Sasahara, AP financial aid, says that aptodays Twitter-savvy plication essays were beMaster of social media: Some value micromarketplace demands. coming unoriginal and ofuKentucky Fried blogging skills as a ticket to higher learning. ten highly edited. Chicken offers a Colonels Were hoping that incorporating social media Scholars grant based on a tweet responding to tell us in 140 characters why you deserve a in the process will help bring back some of that $20,000 scholarship over four years. The compe- creativity, she says. Iowa applicants are encouraged to link to their tition received 2,800 applications last year, KFC blogs or anything else that may help answer the spokesman Rick Maynard says. uScholarship.com, an organization to help question: What makes you an exceptional . . . students find money for college, offers the Short full-time MBA candidate and future MBA hire? One applicant, Kinzie Dekkenga, says she and Tweet Scholarship, which asks applicants to sum up their college experience in a tweet to win worked on her tweet for five days. Having to simplify your thoughts down was much harder $1,000 or a Kindle. uThe 140 Scholarship, presented by College than I thought, she says. By Luke Kerr-Dineen and Natalie DiBlasio USA TODAY

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