21.   By taking the most heinous crimes, or ones with the most reliable witnesses or greatest headline appeal, federal prosecutors could inadvertently create the racial disparity.

22.   Clinton has led a campaign recently to reduce racial disparities in health statistics.

23.   Clinton said he would focus domestically on racial disparities in health, education, economic opportunity and criminal justice.

24.   Dr. Chad Helmick of the disease agency said no clear explanation was apparent for the rise in deaths or for the increasing racial disparity.

25.   Earlier studies had pointed to racial disparities in treatment, but many of them involved procedures with debatable effects on survival, such as coronary bypass surgery.

26.   First, the Clinton administration has made eliminating racial disparities in disease one of its top priorities, and in syphilis the disparity is especially stark.

27.   For instance, Clinton has worked to end racial disparities in health care.

28.   Finally, the question of racial disparity is right now being investigated thoroughly within the Justice Department.

29.   Graves, the evolutionary biologist, said scientists are often too quick to look for genetic explanations for racial disparities in health, when lifestyle may be the answer.

30.   Harper and other black lawmakers say they are distressed by racial disparity in clemency and have yet to hear a viable explanation for it.