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| I contend we are
both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When
you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you
will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen F Roberts It is a sobering thought that when
Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. |
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Check out the gasoline price differences between the US and six European countries. We pay more than two and half times more for gasoline than our friends in the US! See my letters to Time magazine which appeared in its international edition .... bio diesel .... English as the US official language |
Health
updated April 2009
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I have a friend in the US (are you reading this Harold?) who tires of me saying that the quality of life can be better elsewhere. |
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Infant mortality rates |
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Life expectancy
at birth |
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Japan |
2.79 |
Japan |
82.12 |
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Rates of Teenage Childbearing in the USA are the Highest in the Developed World |
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The teen pregnancy rate in the U.S., however, is the highest among the most developed countries in the world, including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden ("Birth, Abortion...," 2006; National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2006). Eighty-six percent of this decline is a result of improved contraceptive use and the use of more effective contraceptive methods among sexually active teenagers, and 14 percent of this decline is attributable to increased abstinence (Santelli et al., 2007). Another study points out
that another cause for the reduction of teen pregnancy is that
adolescents are increasingly substituting other kinds of sex play for
vaginal intercourse (Weiss & Bullough, 2004). |