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Since falls account for 75 percent of children's injuries, protective surfacing is the most critical factor in assessing playground safety. Approximately 90 percent of all serious injuries and at least 33 percent of playground-related deaths involve falls. That none of the Long Island playgroun...

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Main Authors Maria Anzalone. Lynbrook, Marion Grobe. Plandome Manor, Mary Schwabe. Huntington Station, Linda Delaney. Holbrook, Morton Rubin. Glen Cove, Dennelly Baldwin, Thomas E, Mary Ellen Fise. Russ Haven. Albany. Editor's Note: The writers are, respectively
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LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 25.06.1998
EditionCombined editions
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Brill, Steve
Catacosinos, William J
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Summary:Since falls account for 75 percent of children's injuries, protective surfacing is the most critical factor in assessing playground safety. Approximately 90 percent of all serious injuries and at least 33 percent of playground-related deaths involve falls. That none of the Long Island playgrounds surveyed - including one of more recent vintage - has an adequate protective surface, means that none surveyed is safe. Correction: 150,000 children are treated annually at hospital emergency rooms for injuries at public playgrounds. Due to an editing error, the number was given incorrectly in a letter published yesterday from Russ Haven and Mary Ellen Fise. Also, a New York Public Interest Research Group report found the Syosset-Woodbury Park lacked adequate ground-surface material; captions with photographs accompanying the letter and a June 12 news story incorrectly said the park met all safety standards. (6/26/98 A02 ALL) Though Pakistan was carved out of British India as a country for the Muslims, India is still home to more than 100 million Muslims. Yet India is expected to hold talks on Kashmir, a state with a Muslim majority, and cede that territory to Pakistan, ostensibly because Kashmiris will be better off with the Islamic state of Pakistan. This absurd argument is easily refuted by the fact that millions of Muslims have peacefully co-existed with the Hindu majority in a secular India for many years. Ravi Kunnakkat. Lynbrook. [[Maria Anzalone]. Lynbrook; [Marion Grobe]. Plandome Manor; [Mary Schwabe]. Huntington Station; [Linda Delaney]. Holbrook; [Morton Rubin]. Glen Cove; [Thomas E. Dennelly]. Baldwin; Mary Ellen Fise. Russ Haven. Albany. Editor's Note: The writers are, respectively, product safety director of the Consumer Federation of America and legislative counsel to New York Public Interest Research Group; Ravi Kunnakkat. Lynbrook; [Eleanor Lustig]. Rockville Centre. Editor's Note: The writer is past president of the Nassau County League of Women Voters.]