Injuries among Native Americans: Fact Sheet Injuries are the leading cause of death for Native Americans ages 1 to 44 and the third leading cause of death overall (CDC 2003). Injuries and violence account for 75% of all deaths among Native Americans ages 1 to 19 (Wallace 2000). Native Americans 19 years and younger are at greater risk of preventable injury-related deaths than others in the same age group in the United States. Compared with blacks and whites, this group had the highest injury-related death rates for motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian events, and suicide. Rates for these causes were two to three times greater than rates for whites the same age.

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Letter from China: Is it a ‘peaceful rise’? U.S. shouldn’t bet on it : The devil, as they say, is in the details, which is why one might hope for more candor from the country’s leaders, both toward the outside world and toward their own people. They are still spoon-fed a saccharine-laced and ultimately dangerous form of history that paints their China as the eternal innocent: happily self-contained and fair and courtly toward others. ...One senses Beijing is serious about wanting to avoid disastrous wars and ruinous arms races. Its challenge, instead, is to another key source of American power, the international system.

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Why Washington Can't Speak Chinese: When I was the Henry Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress two years ago, I was both amused and appalled to learn that most China policy analysts in Washington were still focused on Western political concerns such as how to democratize China or old-fashioned security issues such as how to strike a balance of power within Asia. As a result, I frequently encountered books and articles about the region with sensationalistic and melodramatic titles, such as "Taming the Red Dragon." Aaron L. Friedberg, who later was Vice President Cheney's deputy national security adviser, served up such works as "The Struggle for Mastery in Asia." ...Zheng's Peaceful Rise has met strong resistance from the Chinese Foreign Ministry as well as the People's Liberation Army. The former criticizes the effort as a self-indulgent pipe dream, while the latter attacks it for tying the military's hands in case Taiwan must be dealt with by force. ...The Iraq war showed two sides of the West -- one Greek (Europe) and the other Roman (the United States). With the two increasingly split, China is finding space to restore its tradition, power and role in the world.

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A Rational Choice (Singapore): When one of Mr Lee senior's young inquisitioners suggested that a bit more freedom of expression would make the country stronger, he retorted: “You mean to tell me that what is happening in Thailand and the Philippines is binding the people, building the nation?”

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Riots highlight Chinese tensions: "People have not been happy with the Chinese here, but I think they are beginning to realise how much they have contributed to our country. Now the shops are destroyed and the Chinese are leaving, I think they may come to regret it."

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Nude offer 'causes havoc' in Indonesia She also lashed out at organisations such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which is one of her biggest critics. 'Being a personality, I know my every movement is being monitored. 'The FPI is very extreme. They need to know that Indonesia is not just a Muslim country. 'It is a democratic country with Hindus and Christians as well,' ...Inul is indeed a beacon for controversy since she emerged on the dangdut scene in 2003. Dangdut is a blend of Indian, Arab and Indonesian folk-pop music, popular in the 1950s and 1960s in Indonesia and Malaysia. It has a reputation of being the music of the working class with bawdy lyrics and suggestive dance moves. She enjoys such popularity that Indonesian political parties tried to make her endorse them in the 2004 elections.