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...that includes add-ons like a fetal ultrasound photo at every visit, private birthing classes, one massage per trimester, optional home doctor visits, her private home and cell phone numbers and e-mail address, and the guarantee that she will be at the hospital for her patients' full active labor and delivery. In order to fulfill that last promise, Sam, who also has a regular gynecological practice, accepts obstetric patients by due date - no more than four women due per month. That kind of attention, even for the most mundane concerns, goes a long way toward comforting patients during pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Patients the VIP Treatment | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

Like many of their neighbors, the Kovals have invested all they had in their house. They sold their apartments in the city of Rostov, borrowed money at a steep rate and invested seven years of hard labor to build the place. "In other countries, they pump oil," says the Kovals' neighbor, Sarkis Inechkyan, 60. "We make our living by letting rooms to vacationers." Their worst fears were realized in early April, when Russia's then Prime Minister Victor Zubkov told a Cabinet meeting that the state would need some 1,700 acres (700 hectares) to build more than 200 Olympic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Sochi | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...work at Morgan Stanley. She shows up at six every morning, never telling her coworkers that she continues to wear hemp underwear and vote Democrat. Maya retires at age 52 to found her long-envisioned development NGO / feminist book club, but only after 30 years of exploiting cheap foreign labor and throwing toxic waste into rivers just...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bye-Bye to the Bystander... | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...important thing we can do to lower the rate of infant mortality is to reduce the rate of preterm birth. But in fact the trend is going in the opposite direction - that rate [in the U.S.] is increasing. There are several causes of preterm birth. One is spontaneous preterm labor. But there's another component, which is medical intervention - for example, doing a preterm caesarean section or induction of labor. That component has been increasing as well, and I think that's worrisome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do U.S. Infants Die Too Often? | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...managing Olmert's campaign finances.) What intrigues police, according to some Israeli press reports, is why Olmert was allegedly collecting campaign funds during years in which he was not actively running for any office. Before taking over as prime minister, Olmert had served as minister for industry, trade and labor, and as mayor of Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Party Marred By Olmert Probe | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

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