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American Health for Women looked at support for women's health, career potential, crime prevention, environment, family life, fitness and urban atmosphere.
A low unemployment rate, few violent crimes, "impeccable" air and water quality, and an abundance of fitness options are also some of the reasons Honolulu was chosen to be on a list of healthy cities in the magazine's January/February issue.
Also cited as healthy places for women to live were Denver; Charlottesville, Va.; Columbia, Mo.; Seattle; Iowa City, Iowa; Rochester, Minn.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; Madison, Wis.; and Burlington, Va.
Sadie Lynn Costa-Burns joined the party at 1:06 a.m. yesterday at Queen's Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at birth. Mother Chaniel Costa, 17, and the child are doing fine.
"We're kind of in shock," said Burns of the media attention focused on the birth.
"It was different. But it was really nice, a happy new year."
Mother Chaniel, a student at Kailua High School, said she was tired and happy.
And she offered this advice to her peers: "I would tell other teen-agers to wait. Have fun while you can."
Other New Year's Day babies included Ryan Joshua Keller, born at 2:07 a.m. at Tripler Army Hospital to parents Roger and Allyson Keller, and Alexandria Reed, daughter of Laura and John Reed, born at 2:11 a.m. at Kapiolani Hospital.
Gov. Ben Cayetano said the CD production was a pilot project seeking to "deliver government services and information in a user-friendly manner."
The discs, usable on IBM or Macintosh computers, are available at district tax offices. For more information, call the taxpayers service branch at 587-4242.
Two bullets penetrated a station door and hit a fire truck around 2 a.m., said Honolulu Fire Chief Anthony Lopez Jr. "We're hoping it's isolated," he said.
At about the same time yesterday, Ewa Beach firefighter Martin Smith was struck by a rock and knocked unconscious while seated in a fire truck returning from an alarm.
The rock shattered a safety-glass window and hit Smith's helmet. The 43-year-old firefighter was treated at St. Francis-West Hospital and later released.
"If he didn't have the helmet on, it might have killed him," Ewa Beach fire Capt. Edward Cashman said.
A 21-year-old Kahuku man, who suffered serious injuries to his left thumb and index finger when a shotgun reportedly exploded in his hand, is in fair condition.
Two others are in guarded condition.
They are a Waipahu man, 35, who was shocked while attempting to hang fireworks on a rope he had allegedly draped over a power line, and a 22-year-old man injured in a one-car crash on Kaukonahua Road.
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- House, car burn in Big Isle blaze
- Hilo man arrested for knife threat