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...Best Birth Your article on home birth credits me with natural-childbirth advocacy that started a new wave of home births in the 1970s [Aug. 18]. As one who is still advocating for women today, I'd like to correct a widely held myth repeated in your article: that the mass move to hospital births accounted for the huge drop in the maternal mortality rate between 1940 and 1960. Actually, public-health developments such as the availability of antibiotics, blood transfusions and intravenous fluids accounted for most of that reduction in the death rate. The real question is why that...
...Alms for Business' Sake Creative capitalism has enormous potential to lift large numbers of people out of poverty, but we should not glorify corporations for engaging in it [Aug. 11]. Creative capitalism and corporate social responsibility are essentially versions of the old "win-win" strategy: Help the poor while helping yourself. In creative capitalism, corporations improve the living standards of the poor, thus developing new markets while they improve their reputation. This is not to criticize the concept, as it can bring great benefits. But it is as much about business as philanthropy. Lisa Crisostomo, Brussels...
...Dude, There's a Ball in My Iced Tea I think it's funny how Billy Gaines, the founder of Bpong.com, says competitive beer pong is not about alcohol [Aug. 18]. As a college student myself, I know that most students aren't playing to fill their cups with Gatorade. They like the added bonus of getting drunk as part of the competition. Brett Johnson, Santa Cruz, California
...AUG. 25-28 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION...
...Nepal A Guerrilla Takes Command Prachanda, the mercurial chief of Nepal's Maoists, was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister on Aug. 18, four months after his former rebel group won a majority in landmark elections that transformed the Himalayan kingdom into a secular republic. Nepal's new leader now faces food and fuel shortages, opposition from the displaced Old Guard and friction with regional separatists...