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They have reason to be. For here is the truly ghastly reality of maternal mortality: in 20 years--two decades that have seen spectacular medical breakthroughs--the ratio of maternal deaths to babies born has barely budged in poor countries. To be sure, maternal health has seen advances, with new drugs to treat deadly postpartum bleeding and pregnancy-related anemia. But in many places, such gains are dwarfed by a multitude of problems: scattershot care, low pay for health workers and a scarcity of midwives and doctors. In Mozambique, where women have a 1 in 45 lifetime chance of dying...
...giant investment banks whose failure could endanger the financial system. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency battled state regulators over who had the right to impose consumer protection rules. And in a struggle that has taken on special resonance this week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Brooksley Born - a Clinton appointee - tried after the collapse of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998 to impose some kind of federal oversight on the over-the-counter derivatives market, and was thwarted by a less-than-holy alliance of anti-regulation types in Congress and colleagues...
...Solartaxi idea was born when Palmer first heard of global warming and the petroleum crisis as a 14-year-old. He dreamt of finding a way to travel and “enjoy the beauty of the world without polluting...
...Iranian-born Mofaz, 60, is selling himself to Kadima voters as a longtime soldier ever-vigilant against Israel's enemies in the region. Mofaz distinguished himself through battlefield bravery as a corporal and then rose through the ranks to become army chief of staff and, later, Defense Minister. Officers who served with Mofaz praise his diligence, but say he lacks vision and flexibility...
Livni was born into a extremely nationalist family: Both parents were fighters in the Irgun, the Jewish underground movement that fought the British in Palestine before the founding of Israel, and are thought to be the first couple to marry in the new Israeli state in 1948. Livni served as a lieutenant in the Israeli army and later joined Mossad, working for the intelligence service for several years in the early '80s. She left the service to became a real estate lawyer before dipping into politics in 1999. Following her election to the Knesset, she became a protege of Ariel...