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...race and ethnicity. For 2004, the overall [U.S.] infant mortality rate was 6.78; but for non-Hispanic black mothers it was 13.60. It was also fairly high for American Indian mothers: 8.45. For non-Hispanic whites, it was 5.66. For Hispanics it was 5.55. And the lowest was for Asian or Pacific Islander mothers, which was 4.67. So there's a huge range there. The rate for non-Hispanic black mothers was 2.4 times the rate for Hispanic or non-Hispanic white mothers...
...social development and cultural rejuvenation. “My approach is looking at this as a problem of development,” Xue said. “This is not only a Tibetan problem, but a problem faced in many developing countries.” Senior fellow in East Asian Legal Studies at the Law School Lobsang Sangay—who showed photographs of violence in Tibet—praised the discussion for achieving what he said the Chinese government has done poorly. “Finally, after the tragedy, one good thing has happened,” he said...
...1980s the U.S. had another paranoid, apoplectic fit about a rising Asian power. Twenty years ago, the bad guy wasn't China but an ascendant Japan, which was out to destroy the U.S. with its unfairly well built sedans, VCRs and microchips. The ballooning trade deficit with Japan was the hot-button political issue of the day, just as the yawning deficit with China is today. Japan was using "unfair" trade practices to disadvantage U.S. industry, many Americans believed. The Japanese were "manipulating" their currency, the yen, to make their exports extra cheap in the U.S. market, in the same...
...parties had been at loggerheads for more than a decade, but joined forces after the election to restore civilian rule and offer Pakistanis hope that a coalition of their country's two largest parties would bring much-needed stability to the troubled South Asian nuclear power. "Please give us a chance," Zardari said soon after a coalition agreement was finalized in March. "We are bound together in the spirit of democracy...
...disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the inaccessibility of the stricken areas and the poor state of Burma's infrastructure and health systems mean that number is sure to rise. With as many as 1 million people still at risk, it is conceivable that the death toll will, within days, approach that of the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur...