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...helped reduce the national SIDS death rate 56%, from 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1992 to .53 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2003. In addition to placing babies on their backs to sleep, pediatricians recommend that parents use firm mattresses for babies, avoid soft bedding such as comforters and quilts, put babies in their own cribs at night, keep infants from overheating and refrain from smoking during pregnancy and infancy...
...time at Kellogg, Rangan found that he was also interested in another field. “I slowly developed a love for the social enterprise part of business,” Rangan said. “If you were born in India and grew up there, you cannot avoid being connected to poverty. It’s not as if the wealthy class and the poor class are segregated. They coexist together, and you see everything that happens around you. Given that environment, I always had a social streak in my heart.”Rangan credited HBS with allowing...
...Life on Mars should bring viewers back for a second episode, but the highly praised British original resolved its story in only 16 episodes. Can this American Life avoid becoming ridiculous stretching the story out over dozens of episodes? It will depend on how well it rethinks the closed-ended British story line. In the end, successful foreign-transplant shows are not really "imported"; they immigrate. Eventually, they need to learn a new dialect and new mores. If they succeed - like Archie Bunker and all TV's other Ellis Island inductees - they'll have to find a way to adapt...
...muscle problems.” The brevity and impenetrability of such responses only leaves us to guess at the kind of person who is behind them.Both actors admitted that the crazy night depicted in the movie doesn’t reflect their own lives. “I avoided nights like this on purpose,” Dennings said. “I still kind of do. I’m a real homebody and the prospect of running around looking for something I don’t know where to find, is a little bit daunting...
...Although few details have leaked about how the Obama team has prepared for Thursday's event, it is a safe bet that Biden has been rehearsing short, crisp answers and general restraint to avoid droning on, showing off or Beltway bloviating. Given the reality of gender politics and the Senator's tendency for familiar glad-handing, Biden is in particular danger of saying something perceived as condescending or sexist to Palin. Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm has been serving as a stand-in to simulate the dynamic he will face, and Biden has reportedly sought out advice from Senate colleagues like...