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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...
...surprisingly, the Obama campaign takes issue with that assessment. Over Labor Day weekend, while waiting for Obama to finish an event, David Axelrod, the nominee's top strategist, noted that their strategy is broader than McCain's and therefore requires a lot more leg work, but that it has more of a potential payoff. "We're going into Nov. 4 with many different scenarios to get to 270 electoral votes," he says, squinting at airplanes buzzing overhead, part of Cleveland's annual air show. "I think their path is very, very narrow, as is their thinking...
...news was that none of that fertility was in evidence today. This was the most sterile Apple event since Jobs returned from exile, unified Apple and brought the company back from the brink of ruin. He actually spent 15 minutes on a new iTunes feature called Genius that does little more than recommend playlists of music you might like based on music you're listening to, with one click. These if-you-like-that-then-you'll-like-this music discovery services have been around since the mid-1990s. It's hardly the kind of zowee innovation we've come...
...pull a rabbit out of a hat. Apple has sold more than 160 million iPods to date, and it's good business to refresh the lines now and again. It's hardly news, though. Indeed, the most interesting non-health related item to come out of the event was the news that a possible fix for some of the bugs that plague the iPhone - better battery management, less crashing, faster backups - is coming out in a 2.1 firmware on Sept. 12. But the iPhone's long-awaited cut-and-paste functionality? Keep waiting...
...There were few complaints from Harvard affiliates about the convention, despite some griping about the choice of the Twin Cities as the location for the event. However, Downer did have one regret about Palin's speech...