1.   Although a record number of newborns are surviving to their first birthday, black infants are still twice as likely to die as white babies.

2.   Such close spacing may contribute to the mortality rate among black infants, which is twice as high as among white babies.

3.   The death rate among black infants is about twice that for whites, he said.

4.   The discrepancy is not, as might be guessed, because black infants do not have equal access to the technology.

5.   The infant death rate is twice as high for black infants as for white in this country.

6.   Thus a black female infant may have a two-week advantage over a white male.

7.   -- Black infants are twice as likely to die in the first year of life as white infants.

8.   A white farmer accused of shooting to death a black infant withdrew his request for bail Friday as hundreds of protesters chanted and sang for justice outside.

9.   A white man charged with the shooting death of a black infant was on Thursday found guilty of culpable homicide.

10.   A white man charged with murder in the shooting death of a black infant called the case a mistake, not murder, at his bail hearing Wednesday.