Ray Tokyolivein's Profile

Dr. George Patton, of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne,
Australia, and international colleagues looked at worldwide statistics
from reports issued in 2004 and 2006. In 2004, 2.6 million people died
between the ages of 10 and 24 worldwide, and nearly two-thirds of them
were in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, even though those areas
make up just 42 percent of the world population in that age group.

At the trade center site, volunteers — from soup kitchens, advocacy groups, the Red Cross, the United Way — joined relatives of the lost to read the names of those killed in the twin towers. They spoke under tents to protect against rain