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...Five hundred years later, surgical delivery seems as trifling as tooth extraction. In Chile, which is currently believed to have the world's highest cesarean rate, 40% of all births are in the operating theater. But larger populations in Asia mean that greater numbers of C-sections are performed in this region, particularly in South Korea (36.4% of all births in the first half of 2006), Taiwan (with a rate of roughly 33%), Singapore (about 30%) and China (approximately 26%). In Thailand, Dr. Stephen Atwood of the maternal and child-health section of UNICEF's regional office, says...
...most indelible image: ignoring the “bulging black cumulus clouds” and eventual thunderstorm, the murderous Ramírez Hoffman sky-wrights a poem from his plane, one line at a time (“Death is friendship,” “Death is Chile,” “Death is my heart”). At the end, Bolaño insists that Ramírez Hoffman can no longer hurt anyone, but immediately backtracks: “I didn’t really believe it. Of course he could. We all could...
Americans weren’t the only ones to ask themselves these questions. After a woman sought the French presidency, and Germany, Chile, and Argentina elected female heads of state, the international press questioned Americans’ own ability to elect a black or a female candidate. Reporting here and abroad both centered on the politics of identity, rather than the politics of policy...
...have seen the best growth run in memory, and so far signs of slowdown outside the U.S. and Europe are few. India and China are posting astonishing growth numbers, while economies of countries from Africa to Latin America that export raw materials, like oil from Nigeria and copper from Chile, have benefited from high commodity prices--themselves a function of the Asian giants' performance. "The economic bleakness in the West I don't think is matched by economic bleakness in the East," says Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry. There's so much growth momentum outside...
...have seen the best growth run in memory, and so far signs of slowdown outside the U.S. and Europe are few. India and China are posting astonishing growth numbers, while economies of countries from Africa to Latin America that export raw materials, like oil from Nigeria and copper from Chile, have benefited from high commodity prices - themselves a function of the Asian giants' performance. "The economic bleakness in the West I don't think is matched by economic bleakness in the East," says Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry. There's so much growth momentum outside...