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...Nigeria and Tanzania, Harvard PEPFAR pays the costs of medication and also the labor costs for medical professionals in certain clinics...
John Howard recently regained control of the Australian parliament with his successful election to a fourth term as prime minister on Oct. 9. Howard’s Liberal National Party coalition managed a comfortable 5 percent victory over their younger Labor Party rival, Mark Latham—a candidate who had at one time stirred hope in the hearts of Australia’s political left...
...show's milieu can be phony, the resentment it taps into is not. When a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that working men still do less housework than working women, we should have seen the success of Housewives coming. And men aren't the only villains. There are also women who righteously judge other women: the local gossip, the neighbor who chides Lynette over how she disciplines her kids. None too subtly, these bad women are piggy looking and dowdy, unlike the lissome, likable Huffman and Hatcher. It's not the most feminist way of drawing distinctions...
...BIRTH OF A NEWBORN IS usually a joyful event in the life of a family. The memory of nine often uncomfortable months--not to mention the intense effort of labor and delivery--begins to fade and the focus shifts to a wrinkled little miracle with 10 impossibly cute fingers and toes. Everyone is trying to decide whether the baby looks more like Mom or Dad. There are smiles all around, and in a day or two the happy family will leave the hospital to begin a grand new adventure at home...
Doctors admit that some of their best ideas for preventing early delivery haven't worked very well. A drug called Ritodrine, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1980, successfully stops preterm labor in many women, but subsequent studies have shown that it has no overall effect on a baby's health or survival. Treating all uterine infections, no matter how mild, also appears to make no difference on the timing of delivery--suggesting that infection is only one stage in a larger, much more complex process. "We've been taking the one-cause-at-a-time...