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By RON MATUS, St. Petersburg TimesChinese is fastest growing language taught in U.S. schoolsST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The short teacher with the bamboo-print blouse hands her students a mini-football, basketball and soccer ball, and tells them to practice their words. "Don't drop the ball," she jokes.As the students pass the balls up and down the rows, they count.San shi si.San shi wu.San shi liu.Thirty-four. Thirty-five. Thirty-six.  |
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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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