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Good News About Cancer

January 8, 2020 Comments Off on Good News About Cancer

For anyone who has a loved one suffering with the physical, mental, and emotional trauma of cancer, or who is suffering themselves or in fear of it, the American Cancer Society has given us some good news. Not a cure–yet–but something to give us hope. Here’s what the Society found:

  1. The rate of people dying from cancer has continued to decline for 25 years.
  2. Between 1991 (peak cancer deaths) and 2016, there have been an estimated 2.6 million fewer deaths from cancer.
  3. These declines are being seen in breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers.

They attribute it to three major factors: people are smoking less, cancer is being detected earlier, and treatments are improving.

Get more current details at the Society’s article Facts & Figures 2019: US Cancer Death Rate has Dropped 27% in 25 Years

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Kids are Graduating!

May 7, 2014 Comments Off on Kids are Graduating!

Great news!  We’re closing in on a 90% graduation rate. The National Center for Education Statics has reported that we’re at a never-before-reached 81% and climbing, with 90% quite attainable by 2020. Some states are already there.  Read more about this in the article at Time.com.

I’m excited because of my belief that education is the cornerstone for building a healthy, vibrant society.  Education parts the forbidding seas of lack of employment opportunities, ignorant discrimination, inequality, and poverty.  It puts otherwise wasted brain-power and creativity to work in ways that benefit the whole society.  It opens individual lives to the wonder of the world.  Education can’t actually save our country or the world, but it’s certainly a giant step in that direction.

 

 

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Mexican-Immigrant Invasion

January 2, 2013 Comments Off on Mexican-Immigrant Invasion

Those who insist that Mexican “illegals” are going to take over our country because they keep breeding at an alarming rate should consider recent reports on birth rates.  It seems that Hispanic women in the U.S.–both those born here and immigrants–are now having fewer babies.  In the period between 2007 and 2010, they actually had fewer babies than any other group.  In 2011, the birth rate dropped to an all-time low among those women.  And the trend continues.

If Hispanic “illegals” are dead set on invading the U.S. and taking over by sheer numbers, they’d better work harder on procreating.  Meanwhile, it doesn’t look like there’s any danger to us real Americans.

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