News tagged with black children

Racial disparities in asthma exist even among children with equal access to health care

Within a comprehensive health insurance system, black and Hispanic children appear more likely than white children to have asthma and their outcomes are often worse, according to a report posted online today that will appear ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Teenagers play detectives on Interpol's new website

Global police agency Interpol Tuesday launched a website to educate teenagers about crimes that can be committed over the Internet and tell them how they can protect themselves from the dangers.

Technology / Internet

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Psychologists examine how race affects juvenile sentencing

When it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall

(AP) -- Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Girls face 'sexting' threat from peers

A report commissioned by the NSPCC, conducted in collaboration with King’s College London, reveals the level that ‘sexting’ has reached among teenagers, with schoolgirls facing increasing pressure ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Gold rush sweeps Latin America, Amazon suffers

A new gold rush is sweeping through Latin America with devastating consequences, ravaging tropical forests and dumping toxic chemicals as illegal miners fight against big international projects.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: 8th-grade students still lag in science

Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal government said Thursday.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 22

2012 Venus transit - the countdown is on!

Head outside on any clear night this week and you won’t be able to miss brilliant Venus decorating the western horizon. Right now it’s surrounded by a host of bright winter stars like Capella, Betelgeuse, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

UC Berkeley passes management of Allen Telescope Array to SRI

Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes – most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) – scanned the Milky Way and other galaxies for 50 years ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mandela's vast personal archives brought online

Thousands of handwritten documents, photographs and videos of Nelson Mandela have been digitised and placed online Tuesday in a massive archive of the life of South Africa's first black president.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Middle school boys who are reluctant readers value reading more after using e-readers: study

Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an e-reader, according to a new study.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0


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