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By JULIA O'MALLEY, Anchorage Daily NewsPutting metal detectors to good useANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Tracy Dahl, a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, was strolling along the Coastal Trail in Anchorage last month when she flipped her hand, accidentally launching her engagement ring -- a platinum band with a princess-cut diamond in the center-- into the air. She watched it sail over a fence onto the marsh grass.  |
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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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