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By AILENE VOISIN, Sacramento BeeKnight is man of oppositesBob Knight resigns in the middle of the college season -- a major sin, according to his own biblical basketball teachings -- and is immediately portrayed as saint or sinner, basketball savant or self-absorbed overachiever, or by more reflective observers, as some combination thereof.The man is controversial. The man is a conundrum.
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A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans.
A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.
A special report by Scripps Howard News Service finds as many as one in five Americans does not have a family doctor. And this translates directly to higher rates of illness and death and higher costs.
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