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...almost three times the national average, and more than the U.S. rates for either blacks (15%) or Hispanics (11.2%). About one-third of Watts families exist below the poverty line. The city and county human relations commissions report that the south-central area containing Watts had "the highest infant mortality rate, the lowest rate of immunization, the highest incidence of communicable disease . . . and the fewest doctors per capita in the county...
...American citizen who moved to France as an infant, Huebner says that he always saw himself as occupying a “middle ground” between European and American international affairs. Sept. 11 made that impossible...
Good question. Witnesses were supposed to paint a sympathetic picture of England. Graner, who is the father of her infant son, was eager to do so, passing reporters a note before he testified that said, "Knowing what happened in Iraq, it was very upsetting to see Lynn plead guilty to her charges...
...Heng-ming, 86, an army colonel during the period of KMT rule, has the advantage of the long view. Wu still has Communist shrapnel in his throat and stomach from the civil war. When his army retreated to Taiwan, he left behind his wife and infant son. Years later, Wu learned that his wife's father was killed by the abandoned son during the Cultural Revolution. "He tortured him," Wu says. "It was a time when the young were told to turn against their elders." He says he no longer harbors resentment against the Communists and says the ghosts...
World population is now 6.4 billion and is projected to rise to close to nine billion over the next 40 years. The good news is that an increasing fraction of the world population is enjoying a measure of significant economic progress. People are living longer. Rates of infant mortality are on the decline. More people have access to adequate facilities for health care and education. And, perhaps most important, women are assuming their rightful roles as coequal partners in society...