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The Web is full of health care-related information. Here are some of the most useful -- or at the very least interesting -- sites.
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Cullen Jones just became the second African-American swimmer to win Olympic gold. A Bronx native, Jones said he wants more parents of minorities to encourage their children to learn to swim to prevent drowning. The USA Swimming Foundation says that black children drown at a rate almost three times that of white children.
Brad Daugherty, already the most visible black man in NASCAR, is becoming a fulltime Sprint Cup team owner. Daugherty has been an on-and-off team owner for the past 20 years at the sport's Class AAA level, and is a TV analyst for ESPN's Sprint Cup coverage.
California law bans the state's public universities from recruiting students based on race. But it can't stop student volunteers. Call it the outsourcing of affirmative action. Stepping into jobs made off-limits to university officials by Proposition 209, students are reaching back into their own communities to boost diversity on campus.
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