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...called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Chávez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with. (One of his favorite American films is Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider.) Chávez is fond of calling Bush "Mister Danger," a reference to a quintessential Ugly American in Venezuela's best-known novel, Doña Bárbara, a torrid story set not far from where Chávez was raised. And the "devil" barb, he points out, stems from a legend about a llanero who beats...
...total strangers is not whether I'm having a girl or a boy, but whether I'm having a C-section. Vaginal childbirth is very out these days in Tehran. The procedure is quickly edging out the nose job as the dominant medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Nuclear capacity...
...encyclical letter entitled Deus Caritas Est (“God is Loveâ€), we can conclude the once-called “rottweiler†Cardinal Ratzinger molded into a truly ecumenical pontiff. He quotes enlightened philosophes, concelebrates with rabbis and patriarchs, and is quite fond of neo-Platonic reasoning in his homilies. He even repeatedly quotes passages in the Qur’an. In short, he seeks to bring the Church closer to other religions in building a Christianity more akin with Christ’s teachings than the one that ordered the Crusades and the Inquisition long...
Nevertheless, opponents of abortion are fond of contending that such women can always choose to put up their unwanted babies for adoption—if socioeconomic factors are the main issue, they claim, the simple solution should be giving birth and then letting someone else care for the child. This way, the parent is not tied to an unsustainable burden, and the child is given a suitable developmental environment. Though this may seem like an ideal solution, it ignores several key issues, chief among them the fact that pregnancy and childbirth themselves require significant resources—for example...
...They found that while obesity caused about 112,000 deaths a year, being overweight prevented about 86,000 deaths annually. Based on those figures, the net U.S. death toll attributable to excess weight is 26,000 a year (about one-twelfth the figure that many obesity experts had been fond of quoting). But this was more than canceled out by the 34,000 deaths that researchers linked to being underweight-having a BMI lower than 18.5. What to make of pudginess appearing to prolong lives? Study coauthor David Williamson speculated that since most people are over 70 when they...