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...most recent book, The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium, was published last October by Harcourt Brace...
...diseases are rampant and periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel d'Harcourt, 34, a program manager for the International Rescue Committee, that means having to build a health-care system in the midst of a full-blown health crisis, improvising with scarce foreign aid and an overburdened Ministry of Health. "There is so little room for error," he says. "The resources...
...issue of maternal mortality--mothers dying in childbirth--is particularly perplexing to D'Harcourt. In Rwanda becoming pregnant is tantamount to a death sentence. The lifetime risk of death from labor complications in this part of Africa is 1 in 9. The risk in the U.S. is 1 in 4,000. Numerous factors including nonexistent prenatal care, malnourishment and unsanitary delivery conditions jeopardize the health of mothers and babies. "It's impossible to predict complications," says D'Harcourt. "That's the difficulty with maternal mortality. You can't predict what will go wrong. Certainly, quality of care and treatment play...
Smith, known for his expertise in financial matters as well as medical issues, chairs Harcourt General Inc., a Fortune 500 company with interests in publishing and educational materials. Hope, a lawyer, has been active in Republican politics--working for both the Ford and Reagan administrations--as well as being a senior partner for the international law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker...
Smith chairs Harcourt General Inc., a Fortune 500 company with interests in publishing and educational materials. He has also served as chair and CEO of The Neiman Marcus Group and GC Companies, Inc., the parent company of General Cinemas...