Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Keeping us Safe

I'm so glad the valiant men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are stopping all those terrorists at the airports:

A 14-day-old infant traveling here for heart surgery died at Honolulu International Airport on Friday after he, his mother and a nurse were detained by immigration officials in a locked room, a lawyer for the boy's family said.

The Honolulu medical examiner's office yesterday identified the infant as Michael Futi of Tafuna, American Samoa's largest village, which is located on the east coast of Tutuila Island. Autopsy findings have been deferred.

According to police, the child died at 5:50 a.m. It is unknown why immigration officials detained the mother, the nurse and the child. . . .Airport paramedics were called about 6:10 a.m., he said.

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