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Could it be the homogeneity?

"We are rich beyond measure compared to the countries where these folks are fleeing from."

Mexicans: They longer they live here the fatter they get.

And what about whites?

We can't imagine why.

Minorities are healthier and live longer in homogeneous neighborhoods.

Increased risk of psychosis--another benefit of diversity.

Black boys start a year earlier than whites and Hispanics.

"Adolescents may not fully understand that shooting or hanging themselves can have permanent results."

And Medicaid pays for it.

40 percent of Harlem residents visit the ER each year.

Signs of the times.

White female high school dropouts don't live as long as black dropouts.

ACLU wants infected inmates to mix with the general population.

It gives medical and dental schools incentives to lower standards for non-whites.

One study found that half of these groups in Britain had developed diabetes by age 80.

Racism accounts for high black infant mortality.

Is there anything it can't do?

We should point out race differences only when absolutely necessary.

Is discrimination keeping blacks up night?

The usual racial patterns emerge.

An average of 16 per student.

Still most sexually active, however.

Many non-whites use emergency rooms for routine treatment.

And there are racial differences, too.

Whites are more sensation-seeking; blacks are more impulsive.

Is fear of the health care system what keeps them from donating?

Westerners shamed because Africans can't solve their own problems.

And the cause seems to be genetic.

The disease was concentrated among poor, black men.

More whites are killing themselves with prescription drugs.

It is racism that drives Canadian aboriginals to drugs and gambling.

Black women make up 90 percent of female HIV cases in DC.

Dark skin prevents enough absorption of sunlight.

This time the accusation failed.

Chad denizens blame witchcraft.

They oxidize fat more slowly and have a slower resting metabolism.

Kenyans often relive themselves in plastic bangs and fling them into the street.

And immigrants bring it here.

We'd like to know who paid for the double bypass surgery.

The poor dear didn't want to hurt his liver.

Strangers more likely to give CPR to whites.

Many of them want to be fat.

We need affirmative action for fat people!

Scientists concede that genes probably have something to do with it.

New drug from SE Asia is legal and unregulated.

"Totally drug resistant" tuberculosis has evolved in India.

Nationally, 66 percent of women infected with HIV are black.

No mention of differential rates of development.

And more black women think being physically attractive is "very important."

Trying to protect blacks from the consequences of their own actions.

Immigration could bring us dhat syndrome, koro, sangue dormido, susto, and pibloktoq.

Immigrant? We can't be told because of "privacy" considerations.

Blacks are 17 percent of public school students but account for 31 percent of retardation diagnoses.

Blacks are fattest, then Hispanics, then whites.

Professors Templer and Rushton's latest research.

It must have something to do with oppression and white privilege.

Black teenagers in L.A. county get chlamydia at more than 10 times the rate of whites.

Exercise can mess up a fancy 'do.

. . . at least for those humans who have the genes.

Waist size has a different medical significance depending on your race.

A genetic marker has been found that occurs only in blacks.

And among blacks and whites with diabetes, blacks face only half the risk of heart attack.

Researchers find 2,500 genetic "hot spots" unique to those of West African ancestry.

Anthropologists say "race has already become meaningless in medicine." Doctors disagree.

Author of study once "claimed that residents in sub-Saharan Africa were in poor health because of their low IQs."

The Obama administration's latest initiative in pursuit of "equality."

Retail chain offering to pay blacks to become marrow donors.

Amazing biological effect found in what is only a "social construct."

80 percent of blacks prefer menthol cigarettes.

Vigorous public-health measures.

Blacks more likely to get AIDS, but it has nothing to do with race.

Drug-resistant germ originated in India; now traveling the world.

Courtesy of India and Pakistan.

Truth is no defense.