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...been concentrated in India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, home to over 170 million people. It is here, say health workers, that a few ultraconservative Muslim clerics have spread a myth that the polio vaccine is part of an underhanded campaign to sterilize Muslim children and lower the Muslim birth rate. Dr Hamid Jafari, the regional advisor for the World Health Organization (WHO) on polio eradication, says that the majority of Uttar Pradesh's Muslims have got their children vaccinated, but, "in certain places, fatwas have been issued against the vaccine." In those places, Muslims have stopped state health workers...
...Spark’s Notes version of Summer Celeb Gossip. Without a doubt, this summer’s biggest “news” was the appearance of Suri Cruise in the October issue of Vanity Fair, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. For nearly five months after her birth in April, there were no pictures of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter, sparking debates as to whether the Tomkitten actually existed. Suri’s pictures were newsworthy enough to be featured on Katie Couric’s Sept. 5 “CBS Evening News?...
...numbers of children are born out of wedlock. Not too long ago, such children - and their mothers - were stigmatized. Not any more, says Grazia Francolini, a director of corporate strategy for TNT Italy, who lives in San Donato, near Milan. At age 36, her mother had married and given birth to four children. At 37, Francolini herself had her first child, a daughter named Bianca, and was unmarried - the father was her divorcé boyfriend, Andrea Brusoni. He already had a 12-year-old son by his first marriage. "I believe in the family but I don't think...
...Arbach. "The world is becoming far more global in future and I don't want them to withdraw when they are confronted with a different culture." The sisters seem blissfully unaware of the cultural differences they are being educated to bridge. Pressed to identify differences between her country of birth and her parents' homelands, the best Denya can manage is: "In France we don't have bread rolls like the ones in Germany. But the only real difference between the three is that people speak different languages." French Revolution The size of Claire Denis' family earned her a gold medal...
...adoption rights. Which is not to say that French families are mired in tradition. There has been a decrease in marriage of 30% since 1970. In the same period, divorces have risen from 12 per 100 marriages in 1970 to 44.9 per 100 now. Almost half of all French births last year were out of wedlock. Yet there are signs that the French are placing an ever greater value on family life. Research done by French sociologist Christine Castelain Meunier has shown that fathers in the 30 to 40-year-old age range are less likely to be remote, disciplinarian...