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...Utter the phrase "natural childbirth" and the mind envisages a stoic and earnest woman, surrounded by murmuring midwives in a softly lit room, where ambient music plays and tea lights flicker. Upon the elapse of some decent, manageable labor, she pushes out her baby with honest grunts. While that may be true for some, for most women natural childbirth is one of the most violent physical traumas they will ever experience, bar a serious accident or grievous assault. The average length of labor for a first-time mother is anything from seven to 12 hours, but it can easily...
...standard way to fix it,” said former Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Vice President Cedric Jones. Jones praised schools’ willingness to try new and different methods of addressing the problem, including peer mentor programs and parent advocacy groups. HKS student Joshua Garriga added that providing decent jobs, encouraging integrity in children, and focusing on education would help close the gap. But HBS professor David A. Thomas offered a caveat to students who may become discouraged after trying to recruit people to help alleviate the discrepancy. “Don’t try and convert those...
...panel, at the Brattle Street restaurant Casablanca, the human cost of the war was very much on their minds, Ignatieff said. But Ignatieff remembers Makiya, an Iraqi expatriate, saying, “Look, this is the first and only chance in my lifetime for my people to create a decent society.” “At the time,” Ignatieff said in a recent interview, “I thought the price was worth it.” THINK AGAIN Ignatieff has described this conversation with Makiya, who appears only as a nameless Iraqi expatriate...
...left in the game.Harvard dominated the shot total, outshooting Fairfield 40-16 in the lopsided contest—20-9 in the first half—forcing Fairfield goalie Joe Marra to make 15 saves.“We felt like we were outshooting them by a decent amount for a while, but the score was close,” Tillman said. “So we said ‘hey, keep taking good shots, just keep doing the things we’re doing, and we just need to shoot a little smarter, a little better, and hopefully...
...want another“Doggystyle,” you’re shit out of luck. Butfor the lovers of the new-age Snoop Dogg,this album is his greatest stretch into thecreative unknown yet. The productionand lyrical material are sometimes wildlyinconsistent, but the album still managesto be decent, and in any case, it’s definitelyworth a listen for all fans of the D-Odouble-G.Case in point is “Sexual Eruption,”the anointed radio single of the wonderthat is “Ego Trippin’.” While the song iscertainly unique...