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...those of most of his fellow resisters are on hold until Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board decides the fate of another deserter, Private Jeremy Hinzman, 26. Raised in Rapid City, S.D., and unsuccessful in two attempts to gain C.O. status, Hinzman arrived in Toronto with his wife and infant son at the beginning of last year, two weeks before his unit, the 82nd Airborne, was due to go to Iraq...
Amy Lincoln, the Harvard-educated star reporter in Susan Isaacs' new novel, Any Place I Hang My Hat (Scribner), has nowhere to go but up. Her father Chicky was in and out of prison, her mother Phyllis abandoned her as an infant, and Grandma Lil was known to shoplift dinner on her way home. Why did the author choose such a steep mountain for her heroine to climb? "I'm kind of interested in social class, which we're not supposed to have, but of course we do," says Isaacs. "We're such a mobile society--upwardly, downwardly and geographically...
...Australian role, but no more crudity." New politics. "Modern politics is broken, and we need to fix it." Democracy in the raw. "If in doubt, let's have more democracy, more direct voting, more public participation." Town-hall style meetings. Possum Magic. "If we all read books to our infant children, they will be reading themselves by the time they go to school." What did you learn today? "Quality teaching is a passport out of poverty." "You don't need a safety net unless you're turning Medicare into a high-wire act, and families are at risk of falling...
...many people from that household had died in the 15 months before the invasion and the 18 months after. Strangely, the “before” numbers also don’t correlate with those of other sources. A 2002 study conducted by UNICEF, for instance, put infant mortality in Iraq at 108 deaths per 1000. The Hopkins survey reported only 29. With such depressed “before” death rates, it’s no wonder the survey showed 100,000 civilians had died. Moreover, the researchers used an easily-to-manipulate dataset...
...basic device called Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), which can provide lifesaving respiratory support for newborns, especially those born prematurely. Ringer says this simple technology consists of a tube that is inserted in the baby’s nose and used to supply pressurized air to help an infant breathe and keep his or her lungs from collapsing...