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...much as 37 percent, with a negligible impact on maternal mortality. If you think such results are not replicable in the developing world, look at Nicaragua. In 2006, it adopted one of the strictest abortion laws in the world, yet in the following year it saw a 58-percent drop in its maternal mortality rate...
...said Hekmat Salman al-Ayida, a candidate for the provincial council for Anbar running under the Awakening movement's banner. The tense days, however, showed that armed retaliation for purported wrongs, remains an option for many Iraqis. The prospect of war still hovers over the country, despite the significant drop in violence. (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...
...just the last day or so, the volume and velocity of the discourse have about whether the economy can recover from its sharp drop or whether the fall will be inexorable and stop when the value of goods and services in relation to income is at a 100-year...
...troubling news in the fact that the fourth quarter's measure of gross domestic product (GDP), or the value of all the goods and services the economy churns out, wasn't nearly as bad as economists had thought it would be: down an annualized 3.8%, compared with a predicted drop of 5.4%, according to a Reuters poll. Companies are still producing, Holzer explains, but since no one is buying, inventories are piling up. With a backlog of goods, firms will need fewer workers to keep making more. "That suggests we're getting into the worst of it now," says Holzer...
Contrary to some forecasts, the global economic crisis has triggered no measurable drop in worldwide immigration rates. For most poor immigrants the push to escape dire poverty and political conflict remains far more powerful than any marginal change to the economic health of the rich countries they're looking to get to. Once an immigrant has arrived, though, the tanking economy is playing an increasingly important role in their fortunes - not just because it's harder to find a job, but also because locals are increasingly hostile to their presence...