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When Karen * came home from her first family Thanksgiving as a "grownup," she opened the door to her tiny, railroad apartment in Washington, D.C., and burst into tears. Her place had been ransacked. Closets were dumped, power cords cut, a jewelry box stood empty. It was the second time in six months she'd been burglarized, but when the police arrived, they told her she was lucky. Why? She wasn't home when it happened.
Just a few blocks away, a 25-year-old woman had been strangled to death when she surprised an intruder in her apartment. "Maybe it's time to move when you're on a first-name basis with the local cops," Karen says ruefully. But in her initial year ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Why you may be in danger: it's a cruel irony of life: Just when...