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...statistics continue: Babies born to Indigenous mothers are twice as likely to be of low birth weight and more than twice as likely to die at birth. Although they account for just more than 2 percent of the population, 40 percent of the children in "corrective institutions for children" are Indigenous. The imprisonment rate for Indigenous adults was over 14 times that for non-Indigenous adults. Alcoholism, petrol-sniffing and violence are endemic in the many Aboriginal communities...
...fans to "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" on his 1967 song "Purple Haze," transforming the "Star-Spangled Banner" into an anthem of alienation at Woodstock in 1969. In death he has become a standard by which to judge the pop stars who have come after him. Although he died at age 27 of asphyxiation brought on by a sleeping-pill overdose, and has now been dead longer than he was alive, he's still releasing attention-getting...
...shines on even a dog's ass every once and a while, and although we're not quite sure what that bit of homespun wisdom means, we take it as confirmation that our reasonable amount of success last week was in fact not a fluke but was all part of (as Joe Lieberman might say) God's Master Plan. Or at least Vince Lombardi's. When the KC Line goes 8-7, and Slim and Josie follow with 7-8 weekends, it's cause for celebration, braggadocio and some very fine, well, vermouth is all we have around the office...
...Twenty other athletes have also been cut from the Olympic team, although it is unclear whether they have withdrawn due to positive drug tests or because they failed to meet national athletic qualifications. "This is a warning to all athletes who wish to come to the games with drugs in their system--stay at home," I.O.C. vice president Anita DeFrantz said after the news broke. "Do not come...if you are not coming clean...
...Apple's rough-around-the-edges tabloid went a bit schizophrenic in its coverage: In a box dissecting the candidates' Labor Day activities, the Post printed "asshole" in its early editions, although not in the larger article describing the flub. In a reprint of the box, editors substituted "a------" for the epithet...