Select one of these subjects, write a story and devise an accompanying graph of the changes over the past decade in figures for your city and/or state as compared with national figures. Describe the changes and explain them with information from authorities in the field.

1. Despite the publicity about AIDS prevention, health authorities report:

• The incidences of some venereal diseases, a pathway for HIV-AIDS, have increased.
• The incidence has increased among black gay men.

2. Out-of-wedlock births no longer result in society ostracism, but some authorities say such births are responsible for social, health and educational problems among children in single-parent homes.
3. Infant mortality rates have declined, but the gap between black and white rates remains constant, more than 2 to 1, black infant deaths to white infant deaths.
4. The birth rate to teenage mothers has been dropping steadily. Why?