The newsletter pulls together the most current data on teen births, pregnancies, abortions and contraceptive use. It contains national and state data as well as statistics for more than 100 large U.S. cities. This rate is close to the record low of 50, reached in 1986.
Hispanic teens continue to have the highest rate of teen births.
Burger King Corp. are again urging consumers to immediately destroy and discard Pokemon balls distributed with Burger King kids meals in November and December 1999. Burger King Corp., in cooperation with CPSC, issued a voluntary recall of more than 25 million Pokemon balls on December 27, 1999. The balls pose a suffocation hazard to children under three years of age. On the second attempt, the girl's father was able to pull the ball-half from her face. Pokemon balls are plastic, ball-shaped containers between 2.75 and 3 inches in diameter.