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...Home Births: Safety FirstRe your article on the trend toward giving birth at home [Aug. 18]: Home-birth advocates are of course correct when they point out that birth is a natural event. But they neglect to articulate its violence and danger. Surely, in this modern age, we want to protect each new-born infant with all means at our disposal? Why return to precarious, primitive ways of giving birth-however well-motivated we might be-when we can rely on a century of accumulated medical and scientific knowledge, technology and experience? Marilyn Hunt, Belair, South Australia...
...latest leader matters of intense concern far from the mountains of the Hindu Kush. Al-Qaeda has "hundreds of training camps" scattered throughout the region, says a Western official in Pakistan. CIA director Michael Hayden has called FATA an al-Qaeda "safe haven" that presents a "clear and present danger to Afghanistan, to Pakistan and to the West in general, and to the United States in particular." So the question becomes: How dangerous is Pakistan now--and does Zardari have what it takes to make it safer...
...result might be disorienting to some of the Sandinistas' more traditional Christian base: Ortega, dressed in pastels in order to channel positive energy, delivers a meandering speech on the danger of devils and the love of Christ and of Sandino, while sitting in front of psychedelic painting of an eyeball in the center of a hand surrounded by snakes - a colorful mural painted by Murillo behind Ortega's chair in Sandinista headquarters, to protect him from evil...
...This was authorized by Congress. There was a consensus this was needed to transform and drive new technology," Bozzella says. Apart from America's Big Three, one third of U.S. automotive suppliers are now in danger of bankruptcy because of production cuts by Detroit according to a recent study...
...traffic light and saw a snake writhing in the backseat. Colleagues have taken monkeys electrocuted by overhead power lines to vets, rescued sloths making painfully slow progress while crossing roads and even captured an alligator who had chased a cat up a tree. (See photos of Primates on the Danger List here...