[Deanesmay-announce] New post at Dean's World

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Hello,
	There is a new post on Dean's World.  You can read it at:

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1162400615.shtml

It begins:

	More U.S. blacks attempt suicide than previously
	thought, according to a landmark study appearing in
	today's Journal of the American Medical Association
	that could help explode the myth that black
	suicides are rare because of cultural and religious
	views against it. The first nationally
	representative study to look at attempted suicide
	among blacks found that about 70,000 blacks try to
	kill themselves each year and 4%, or roughly 1.4
	million, attempt suicide at least once in their
	lives. That lifetime rate is similar to that of
	whites but higher than the 2.8% found among blacks
	in previous surveys. Other research...