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Other researchers blame the jump in asthma rates on gaps in the availability of health care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment...
...curriculum. It seemed none of the schools' business. Furthermore, molested youngsters rarely told, either cowed by a stranger's threat or, if the offender was some one close, shamed by the act or fearful of a family blowup. Besides, most grownups tended to brush off chil dren's tales of abuse as fantastic...
...ruling probably saved Pamela's life, it has again put the American legal system at odds with the Constitution's guarantee of religious free dom. State courts have routinely intervened against the antimedicine doctrines of some religious groups in or dering treatment for the chil dren of church members when death is imminent. Now states are beginning to bring charges of neglect or abuse against parents who endanger their children's lives by adhering to religious teachings...
...huge concern. Cross-Country Skier Koch wishes the media would emulate the solitude of his sport or at least consider the Olympic ideal. "If 100 people enter a race," he says, "that means there have to be 99 losers. The worst thing that you can teach chil dren is that so many of them will be losers. Because then they won't even try. It's the striving, the attempt, the fight, that's the Important thing." Lynn Spencer-Galanes, half of a husband-wife U.S. Nordic-skiing couple, says, "Nobody knows for sure how much effort really goes into...
...some of the resorts will keep them until after the adults have enjoyed a leisurely drinks-and-dinner. Nurseries are nothing new, but they are now much more elaborate. At Copper Mountain, infants from two months to two years are cared for by a pediatric nurse. Older chil dren then move on to the Belly Button Bakery, where they can play or make cookies all day or try the carpeted slope...