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...soul to arrive-almost all are slipping away unrewarded. Doctors in charge disagree about how to best save the mother and the baby. They deal with this crisis with that provocative detachment of men dealing with death without being vulnerable to it. While the majority of doctors insist on the need for a caesarian section, there are a few-one of which is the leading doctor in this hospital-who believe that the mother is not giving enough effort to make this process work. Despite the fact that the majority prefers active intervention, the doctors submit to the will...
...language and ideas between Europe's intellectual rebels from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and today's Islamic reactionaries, and demonstrate how that influence was transmitted. Many of Iran's Islamist revolutionaries, for example, absorbed Marxism's critique of the capitalist West. Hence, the authors insist, the rise of anti-American hatred in Islamic nations "is not ... a civilization at war with another ... [I]t is a tale of cross-contamination, the spread of bad ideas." Thus, many Muslims see the recent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers not as a breakdown of the system...
...years, been greatly complicated by the deep policy divisions in both governments. In Tehran, the reins of formal government are held by Islamist reformers who want to extend individual freedoms and achieve a rapprochement with the West. But the real power remains in the hands of conservative mullahs who insist on maintaining an authoritarian clerical regime and who remain innately hostile to the U.S. and its allies. Tension between those two camps has resulted in often confusing signals emanating from Tehran on key security issues, from its nuclear program to its attitude towards al-Qaeda. And the buildup and aftermath...
...should fly down to Florida and see for himself what shape his mother is in, both medically and financially. If he finds what you seem to suspect--that his money is going to pay for luxuries these women cannot afford and build up his sister's equity--he should insist on other arrangements (selling the house, for example) and make any future contributions contingent on a strict accounting...
...liberalized; it makes no sense to build competing electric lines. Regulators have pressured transmission companies to cut costs, and the easiest way to do that is to stop investing. "Now there needs to be clear room for investment for upgrading the grid," Lewiner says. In Athens, officials insist that five new substations will come online by next month, enough to ensure that the juice will flow throughout the Olympic Games. But the Continent's electricity system isn't so easily fixed. Regulators have to offer incentives to companies to make long-term investment profitable. Until then, blackouts like...