Boston's Logan Airport, which is testing the smallest model, is one potential customer. Maddox says that other cities have expressed a particular interest in the sleek design of the smallest bus. They like the futuristic styling. It's less obtrusive to the neighborhood. An African American will live, on average, nearly seven years fewer than a Caucasian American.
Vietnamese women get cervical cancer at nearly five times the rate of white women.
Of the nation's AIDS patients, a disproportionate number are Latino or African American. Poverty, obesity, and nutrition are often blamed, he says, but racism is also a factor. It's a blatant indictment of the health-care system itself. One of his primary tasks is to help the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reach its goal of eliminating health disparities by 2010. The disparities should alarm everyone, Williams says, because by 2050, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans will actually make up the majority of the U.S. population.