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...dramatic setting - a tranquil valley surrounded by sandstone escarpments - adds to the allure. It's hard to believe the Kuku Yalanji people, a tribe of hunter-gatherers, lived here right up until the late 19th century, their lives measured by the rhythm of rituals linked to puberty, manhood, marriage, birth and death. In 1873, gun-toting goldminers arrived in the area, forever disrupting the tribe's way of life. Now the valley is uninhabited, but the ancient traditions live on in the paintings they left behind...
...costs to raise a child in America, was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (yes, that's the government bureaucracy charged with this particular tally). According to its latest estimate, a child born in 2007 costs $204,060 to watch over, feed, cart around, educate and house from birth to the age of 18. This amounts to a tenfold increase in less than 50 years. According to the USDA, child-rearing costs have soared since the department began its annual study in 1960, when raising a kid cost a mere...
...long ago renounced her faith, and now divides her time between Europe and the United States. Allam also struck up a friendship with Oriana Fallaci, the late Italian journalist and writer, who in recent years wrote anti-Muslim screeds and warned against Europe becoming "Eurabia." Fallaci, a Catholic by birth, was a non-believer through her adult life, though reportedly was exploring questions of faith as she battled terminal cancer. In 2005, she met privately with Pope Benedict, but was still said to be an atheist when she died the following year...
...blame the obstetricians," says Dr. Melanie Habanananda, who is critical of both male and female obstetricians. "They don't give women confidence in their bodies ... They create an environment of fear around birth; it's terribly sad." In Taiwan, Kuo Su-chen, a professor in the nurse-midwifery department of the National Taipei College of Nursing, says that C-sections are common because "doctors have no patience. Most doctors want to end the birth quickly...
...surgical techniques improve and costs decrease, perhaps the reasons for preferring natural delivery will one day be intangible. It may become something akin to a rite of passage - the choice of a romantic, affluent minority. In fact, some already see it that way. When his patients choose to give birth naturally, even to the extent of refusing painkillers, "it's like they're climbing Everest without oxygen," says Dr. Paul Tseng, a gynecologist at Singapore's Thomson Medical Center. "They feel very powerful." And so they should - even if the real climb begins after the baby is born, naturally...