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01/29/2008: "Nature curbs dysfunctional societies"

In 2006, nearly 9.7 million children died worldwide before their fifth birthdays, mostly from preventable causes such as diarrhea, malaria or malnutrition, the U.N. Children's Fund said in its annual report.

More than 26,000 children under 5 die each day on average.

[ These are not hard things to avoid. Nature prunes those who cannot get organized to survive, and then well-meaning but stupid humans reverse that process, but it makes them feel better about their neurotic minivan-driving city-stupefacted lives. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_on_re_af/unicef_world_children