From a 2005 report Homicide One of Leading Causes of Injury-Related Death Among Pregnant Women, New Mothers
Homicide is the second most common cause of injury-related death among pregnant women and new mothers, according to a… CDC study released on Tuesday and published in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the Washington Post reports.
Its important not to get paranoid over statistics. In real numbers 1.7 maternal homicides per 100,000 live births. That there are any homicides motivated by pregnancy is psychologically disturbing even if the risk is actually small. Most murderers are caught. Whatever problems the perpetrator thought might be solved by killing the mother should pale next to the possibility of the death penalty or spending a lifetime in cage.
Recognition for a People Who Faded as Japan Grew
NIBUTANI, Japan — The Ainu had lived on Japan’s northernmost island for centuries, calling their home Ainu Mosir, or Land of Human Beings. Here, they had fished, hunted, worshiped nature and established a culture that yielded “Yukar,” an oral poem of Homeric length.
But just as with America’s expansion West, the Japanese pushed north in the late 19th century in the first sign of their imperialist ambitions. Japanese settlers decimated the Ainu population, seized their land and renamed it Hokkaido, or North Sea Road.
And yet it was only a few weeks ago that the Japanese government finally, and unexpectedly, recognized the Ainu as an “indigenous people.”
Too bad the tendency to think that getting rid of those people, you know, the ones that are different from us will somehow usher in some era of ultimate peace and prosperity continues.
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Framing a Century Master Photographers, 1840–1940. The co-inventor of photography Henry Fox Talbot gets his due. Alfred Stieglitz is included of course. I wouldn’t put Man Ray at the top of my personal lists of favorite photographers, but he deserves a world of credit for seeing that objects could in some ways approximate the sensuality of a human subject.
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