Entries Tagged as ‘the south’

April 26, 2007

Rising Infant Death in the Southern United States

Just a short one with an interesting link- A front page article in the New York Times a few days ago discussed the rising levels of infant death in the South.  The death rate is linked to both race and class- differentially it is poor, black women whose babies are dying more often.  The article attributes [...]

April 9, 2007

Leading Seaman Faye Turney

I have gotten very behind on the list of posts I have been wantng to post. One that I definitely wanted to mention while it is still salient is the issue of Leading Seaman Faye Turney- one of the 15 British soldiers captured in Iran. While the other 14 soldiers were rarely named [...]