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...report, titled "Deadly Delivery," notes that the likelihood of a woman's dying in childbirth in the U.S. is five times as great as in Greece, four times as great as in Germany and three times as great as in Spain. Every day in the U.S., more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes, with the maternal mortality ratio doubling from 6.6 deaths per 100,000 births in 1987 to 13.3 deaths per 100,000 births in 2006. (And as shocking as these figures are, Amnesty notes that the actual number of maternal deaths...
Some three million pounds of explosives are detonated each day in West Virginia for coal mining, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and the process shears up to 800 feet of elevation off each mountain peak, says Margaret Palmer, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science. The black scars run visibly up the spine of the central Appalachians. And the explosions don't sound lightly: "When they put these blasts off, it's horrendous," says Maria Gunnoe, 41, of the community advocacy group Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, who lives in Bob White, W. Va., 12 miles...
Airo Farulla also noted that Boloco plans to host another free burrito day on Wednesday, Mar. 24, when he expects to give away between 1800 and 2000 burritos. This give-away day comes after Boloco’s previous “snowloco” free burrito day in early February...
Despite Wednesday evening’s enfeebled river run, students displayed the same unfettered exuberance as in previous years when they awoke early the next morning for Housing Day...
After receiving their Housing Day assignments, many freshmen were quick to announce it online by changing their Google chat and Facebook statuses and e-mailing clubs’ mailing lists...