In a study of 26 high-income countries during the early 1990s, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that the homicide rate for children (under age 15) in the U.S. was

a. Five times higher than that for children in the other 25 countries combined.
b. Five times higher than the next closest country.
c. Five times higher than Australia.
d. Five times lower than China.


A - Five times higher than that for children in the other 25 countries combined.

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a. central b. autonomic c. sympathetic d. parasympathetic

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