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...irreversible. Thus there is a limit beyond which infant mortality cannot be reduced. Nonetheless, 320 U.S. counties have achieved a lower rate of 18.3 deaths per 1,000 births. Poor maternal health, malnutrition, inadequate sanitation and illegitimacy, predictably most prevalent in low-income communities, are also important factors. In Holland and Denmark, which have had a virtually uninterrupted decline in infant mortality since 1950, comprehensive mother and infant care has become a tradition. Some medical experts attribute part of the gap between U.S. and Scandinavian rates of decline to a greater European use of legal abortion and family planning...
Filmed in Amsterdam, "The Legacy of Anne Frank" outlines the German occupation of Holland during World War II, focusing on Anne's story, with discussion of her diary by her father...
...disease may spread to its shores that travelers from Britain are required to walk through clouds of pungent disinfectant at Irish airports, and the Irish government placed ads in British papers appealing to Irish workers in Britain not to come home for the holidays. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have banned meat imports from the United Kingdom. Australia has ruled that emigrants from Britain can enter the country only by ship, not by air, in order to diminish the likelihood of the virus' living long enough to infect Australian herds with the disease...
...most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of the Dutch original to make sure that it contained no errors. Then Bishop Robert F. Joyce of Burlington, Vt., withdrew his imprimatur (permission to publish) from the American edition, and Holland's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink complained that the book was going to press with an unauthorized use of his original imprimatur. Finally, Los Angeles' crusty James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre banned it from the church-run bookstore in his archdiocese. The stores operated by Boston's Daughters...
Died. Vyvyan Holland, 80, only surviving son of Oscar Wilde; in London. As with his brother Cyril, Vyvyan's life was blighted by the shadow of his famed father's 1895 sodomy trial. Only eight at the time, he was spirited away from London by relatives, sent to European schools, given a new name, prevented from attending Oxford because his father was anathema there. Eventually he emerged as a modest writer whose own memories of his father were of "the kindest and gentlest of men, a smiling giant, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived...