61.   Diamond cites evidence that hunters and gatherers prior to the agricultural revolution had a more varied diet, resulting in taller bodies, better teeth and lower infant mortality.

62.   Dozens of studies show that it reduces infant mortality and other medical problems of childbirth.

63.   Despite high rates of infant mortality and poverty, the state did show improvement in those areas in the past decade.

64.   Education levels were up, infant mortality was down and so on.

65.   Educating girls has dramatically positive effects, including lower birth rates, reduced infant mortality and higher incomes.

66.   Even so, the infant mortality rate experienced by black middle-class women is much higher than for poor white women.

67.   For instance, neighborhoods with a high concentration of immigrants from the Caribbean seem to report the highest infant mortality figures.

68.   He is an obstetrician who has specialized in the prevention of teen-age pregnancy and infant mortality.

69.   He cited high infant mortality, low birth-weight babies, and a much higher percentage of children born to adolescent mothers than in other industrialized countries.

70.   He noted that the infant mortality rate for blacks was still twice that of whites, even though the rates have declined among both groups.