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Premature births--babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy--are on the rise in the U.S., and nobody is quite sure why. Multiple births due to fertility drugs account for some of the increase, but they can't explain the 27% rise in premature births over the past two decades. Today 1 in 8 babies, close to half a million annually, is born preterm--some so small, they could fit in your hand...
...position at their companies, only one-quarter serve on a board. But after years of only spotty interest from boards and recruiters, the organization now gets inquiries every week. Similarly, 16% of corporate officers of the 500 largest public companies in the U.S. are women, but women account for only 12% of those companies' board members, according to Catalyst, an advocacy group for women in business. "It's perfectly clear that there is a pool of people there to tap," says Sheila Wellington, Catalyst's president. And in finance, that pool is only getting deeper, with women making...
...Boeing on several airport-security systems, and it is now working with Lockheed to supply communications gear and systems engineering for the U.S. Coast Guard. Also, last year roughly two-thirds of L-3's 35% earnings growth came from acquisitions. But Lanza predicts that internal growth will account for a steadily increasing share of growth and is aiming for $6 billion in sales within five years. Given this increasingly unsafe world, that doesn't seem farfetched...
...company, started in 2000 by former broker supervisor David Tilken, sells Broker Audit, software that automatically tracks client-account activity and alerts in-house compliance officers to suspicious doings. As Tilken, 48, politely puts it, the idea is to prevent "accidents"--everything from long-term neglect to mistyped trade orders to ill-advised portfolio strategies to outright fraud...
...Producer Mark Johnson, chairman of the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Committee, says his group does get the big picture. "We take into account the country submitting it, what percent of the creative talent comes from that country and whether the film is thematically reflective of that country," he says. "We have to be extra careful about our rules as movies become more international and it becomes harder to ascribe nationality." If anything, Johnson says, the committee has been lax this year. It accepted Afghanistan's Fire Dancer, a film set in New York and featuring an Afghan-American...