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...rank, out of 171 countries, of women who die from complications in pregnancy or childbirth. The U.S. death rate--1 in 4,800 women--is far higher than the European average...
...latitude given the last. Middle children are expected to step up to the plate when the eldest child goes off to school or in some other way drops out of the picture-and generally serve when called. The Norwegian intelligence study showed that when firstborns die, the IQ of second-borns actually rises a bit, a sign that they're performing the hard mentoring work that goes along with...
...bring public transport in almost 30 major cities - including Paris - to a standstill. The movement will also be backed by other public employees involved in a contested pension reform: limited disruption is expected in schools due to striking teachers, for example, while the Paris Opera and Comédie Français have already canceled their programs for Thursday with virtually all their public sector staff set to walk out. At issue: the government's plan to require most public sector employees currently covered by "special regime" retirement schemes to work as much as 2.5 years before they qualify...
...Owen’s character quickly grows two-dimensional. Besides always presenting the same calm and manly front, Raleigh mechanically offers hopelessly banal pieces of advice to Elizabeth, like “We mortals have many weaknesses. We feel too much, hurt too much or too soon we die, but we do have the chance of love.” Even when Raleigh falls in love with Bess (Abbie Cornish), Elizabeth’s favorite lady-in-waiting, the romance is flat and hardly worth the love triangle. Fortunately, the excellent score carries his character towards the end, working itself...
...Poscente: A fortuneteller in Singapore told me I would die at 40, and it stuck with me. I thought, man, I'd better hurry...