HOUSTON - Only one in five New Yorkers worries a great deal about a future terrorist attack on their city, compared with about one in seven people living in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston, a survey released Friday found. <br>
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The survey was described as the first comprehensive look at urban attitudes about terrorism and security in post-Sept. 11 America. It was done by the Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston. <br>
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Richard Murray, director of the center, concluded that most Americans consider the attacks ``a stumbling block, but not something that has really changed the way they live their lives."<br>
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Twenty-two percent of New Yorkers surveyed said they worry a great deal about another attack there. Fourteen 14 percent in Chicago and 13 percent in Los Angeles and Houston worry a lot about the possibility of an attack on their cities. <br>
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Outside the nation's four largest cities, only 5 percent of respondents are fretting about terror in their areas. <br>
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The survey found 45 percent of New Yorkers worry very little about future attacks or not at all, compared with more than 50 percent in the three other big cities. <br>
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About 400 people in each of the cities were surveyed by telephone between March 31 and April 16. The margin of error was plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.