Word: expression
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...elect to have C-sections - especially when the procedure is over in about 40 minutes and feels no more uncomfortable, in the words of an anesthetist in one of Hong Kong's top maternity hospitals, "than someone rummaging around in your tummy." When cost is not an issue, women express even greater interest in cesareans. In Hong Kong, just over 45% of private-hospital births are surgical, compared to a territory-wide rate...
...often hear people express the wish to have a less painful delivery," says Dr. Gabriel M. Leung, professor in translational public health at the University of Hong Kong. "They may also want some predictability in the time and day the baby is born" - allowing for a smoother departure from the workplace, and letting fathers and grandparents know when to take time off. The famous Asian penchant for astrology can even be indulged. "Whenever there is an auspicious date, there will be a planned cesarean," says Singaporean doula Ginny Phang (a doula is a private birthing coach who is not part...
...strife and violence of war, we discover unity and meaning. Young people across the world will be protesting in the streets, and we will stand together to demand that this war end immediately. We ask that you join your peers in Harvard Yard at 2:30pm to express your rejection of this war and hope for peace. Let us remember the hundreds of thousands who have died. And in this remembrance, let us not find fuel for vengeance, but rather the inspiration to work together to a build a world of greater peace. No greater monument to the sacrifice...
...Express Newspapers group - owner of tabloid papers the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and the Sunday Star - agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a claim that the papers had defamed them by alleging that the couple themselves were responsible for the death of their 4-year-old daughter. The daily outlets on Wednesday also published page-one apologies to the McCanns, as their Sunday stablemates are expected to do as well, admitting to the "utter falsity" of a series of articles published between late last summer and February...
...Most British press coverage had been largely sympathetic to the McCanns. But after they were named suspects, more stories falsely suggesting their possible involvement in Madeleine's disappearance began appearing. Media experts here say the Express papers were the worst offenders, printing a steady - and in circulation terms lucrative - flow of arch but unsubstantiated innuendo. "There was a drip, drip, drip of negative splash headlines," says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics. "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found," claimed one ludicrous Star headline, while the Express screamed: "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape." Some...