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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (224309)	2/1/2002 2:25:27 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769667

Oklahoma City was very suspicious too, since the ATF was absent from the building. There was some speculation the ATF allowed the building to be bombed rather than evacuate the building and possibly postpone the attack to a unknown date that they could not plan on. * * *

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (224309)	2/1/2002 2:54:06 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What's interesting/surprising about this story is that Hispanic infant mortality is lower than the overall US average and lower than the white-non-hispanic population. It's not in the story but in an accompanying graph that showed up in my newspaper. CDC Report: U.S. Infant Death Rate Fell in 1999 Thu Jan 31, 6:14 PM ET By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The mortality rate among US infants has fallen by 21% since the start of the 1990s, figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show. The infant mortality rate in 1999 was 7 deaths per 1,000 live births, 3% lower than the rate in 1998, the CDC reported Wednesday. The report indicates that the three leading causes of death--congenital malformations, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)--accounted for almost 50% of infant deaths in 1999. Socioeconomic factors had a dramatic impact on the risk of infant death, the report notes. Infants born to mothers who received little or no prenatal care, were teenagers, had 9 to 11 years of education, were unmarried or smoked during pregnancy were more likely to die. Infant mortality rates were generally higher in states in the South and lowest for states in the West and Northeast. Mortality rates were higher for male infants, infants from multiple births and those born preterm than other infants, according to the CDC. The report also indicates that the infant death rate varied according to maternal race, even after correcting for socioeconomic factors. The lowest rate, about 3 deaths per 1,000 live births, was found among Chinese mothers, while black non-Hispanic mothers had the highest infant mortality rate, at 14 deaths per 1,000 live births. "The leading causes of infant death identified in 1999 have not changed from years past," lead author Dr. T. J. Mathews told Reuters Health. "But there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of SIDS cases and this may, in large part, account for the overall reduction in infant mortality," he said. Improvements in neonatal intensive care have also had a strong impact on the infant mortality rate, he added. "There are populations in the US whose infant mortality rates are very low," Mathews noted. "These populations, such as Chinese and Japanese mothers, really set the standard and make us question 'what is it that they're doing right?"' he said. "They are setting a great example of how it should be for all populations in the US."