Noise, was The Anti-Briefing...

[jamesd@echeque.com]

At 04:08 PM 5/27/96 -0400, L. Jean Camp wrote:
> Five kids a day die from violence from the hands of their parents. 

Not so:  I believe this figure is "parent or guardian".  Nearly all
kids are killed by stepfathers, and some by step mothers.  Murders of
children by their natural parents are extraordinarily rare.

A stepfather or stepmother has even more incentive, and 
considerably more opportunity, to murder her spouses children 
than she has to murder her spouses lover.


> The
> infant mortality rate in DC is twice what it is in Havana.

Nobody, least of all Castro, knows what the infant mortality
rate in Cuba is, since in Cuba, truth is a crime.
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