When Taiwanese entrepreneur Y.C. Wang died last October at age 92, he left behind a wife, nine children, a vast legacy and a fortune that FORBES pegged at $6.8 billion.
Among the children, a vast majority had a comorbidity score of 0. Among children, the 12.7% with one or more chronic illnesses incurred 41.6% of the costs.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shied away from recommending mandatory testing of all children, since a vast majority of children from middle- and upper-income families would not test above the 10-microgram level.
The most eloquent summary of the museum's achievement will be the look on the faces of children -- a vast, continuous tide of children over the years to come -- as they leave the new Hayden Planetarium, stunned by a virtual trek from Earth to the edge of the observable universe, and begin their walk down a spiraling Cosmic Pathway that leads them from the Big Bang to the immediate now.
The 2006 MICS in Montenegro is a nationally representative survey of households, women and children including a vast array of information on areas such as: nutrition, child health, environment, reproductive health, child development, education, child protection and HIV/AIDS.
It will mobilize 750,000 workers and volunteers today and tomorrow to immunize 24 million children across a vast archipelago of more than 6,000 islands.
Radioactive iodine is taken up by the thyroid gland, particularly in children, and a vast majority of the 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer caused by the Chernobyl accident occurred because people were not told to stop giving their children local milk.
Minnelli's sympathy for lost and bewildered children has a vast resonance; a sequence involving a rectal thermometer has a shocking psychoanalytic power that's heightened by the chaste restraint and absolute dignity with which Minnelli stages the primal scene of submission to motherly power.
The growth of the Latino population has been fuelled largely by the rise of a new second generation - the US-born children of a vast immigration tide from Mexico, Central and South America that started in the 1970s.
I would like to invite Bono, the G-8, and everyone reading this to consider the minds' of Africa's poor children as a vast, untapped resource that is more valuable than all the gold and diamonds the continent possesses -- and to help develop it in a smarter way.
It is a crisis, first and foremost, about death and disability of children on a vast scale, about women who become maternal mortality statistics partly because of nutritional deficiencies and about social and economic costs that strangle development and snuff out hope.
