41.   Over the past decade, the university also had a higher suicide rate than at many other elite campuses, a Globe study found in February.

42.   Pentagon officials say the overall suicide rate in the military is lower than in society in general.

43.   Senior positions have been shuffled, and prosecutors are investigating apartheid-era crime, leaving morale so bad that suicide rates have tripled in the last two years.

44.   Solano and Santa Clara Counties had the lowest suicide rates in the state.

45.   States with high murder-suicide rates also have high suicide rates.

46.   Suicide rates among gay and lesbian Latino youth are the highest in the state, Medrano says.

47.   Suicide rates are climbing, primarily among teen-agers.

48.   Suicide rates for the young have increased over the last four decades and have leveled off near their all-time highs.

49.   Suicide rates go up, as do bankruptcies and divorces.

50.   The desert region encompassing Nevada, Utah and Arizona has a higher suicide rate than the Pacific Northwest.