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| Newborn death rate; US Second Worst in Developed World. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 9 2006, 06:56 AM (142 Views) | |
| Phlebas | May 9 2006, 06:56 AM Post #1 |
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Bull-Carp
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/0...ndex/index.html "Only Latvia, with six deaths per 1,000 live births, has a higher death rate for newborns than the U.S., which is tied near the bottom of industrialized nations with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with five deaths per 1,000 births. "The United States has more neonatologists and neonatal intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, but its newborn rate is higher than any of those countries," said the annual State of the World's Mothers report." |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| The 89th Key | May 9 2006, 06:58 AM Post #2 |
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Sad.
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| John D'Oh | May 9 2006, 07:01 AM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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Pro-life? |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| The 89th Key | May 9 2006, 07:03 AM Post #4 |
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Smart pregnancies and planning = pro-life. Not sure if you were asking a rhetorical. |
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| John D'Oh | May 9 2006, 07:08 AM Post #5 |
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MAMIL
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I agree but not everyone would. See all those other threads about whether widespread use of the party hat has led to a decline in the fabric of rubber clothing, or whatever it was all about, I can't quite remember. Anyway, that time as a a teenager I inflated a rubber on the bus and threw it, only to see it drift slowly past a nun, has lived with me for years. Catholic guilt is a very strong force, and I'm not even a Catholic. |
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| Optimistic | May 9 2006, 07:14 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Eh, maybe that nun had a sense of humor.
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Optimistic | May 9 2006, 07:20 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The Scandinavian countries are renown for their excellent health care systems, aren't they? |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Kincaid | May 9 2006, 07:23 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Somehow I'd bet that the US is just about tops with teenage mothers giving birth. That might have something to do w/it. Maybe lack of pre-natal care would be even more involved. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 9 2006, 08:04 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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The statistic by itself tells us very little. It does not take into account the fact that the other developed nations they list have highly concentrated populations for the most part and a lack of the minority ghettos we have in this country. We have a large rural population that may well not have good access to neonatal ICUs. We also have 11 million illegal immigrants whose lack of prenatal care is probably reflected in those statistics. How many crack-addicted babies are born in Hungary and Poland? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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