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...Public Health cautions against giving too much weight to the cesarean-mortality connection, but concedes that "there is some evidence of higher maternal mortality rates in cases of cesareans to low-risk mothers," and suggests that a woman contemplating a C-section should ask herself why she should undergo major surgery "when she and her baby are healthy...
...Rosen wrote. Rosen cited a larger-than-anticipated sophomore and junior class as the underlying reasons for the current housing crunch.The e-mail outlined two alternatives to the plan presented in the earlier e-mail, but emphasized that all three options would require “major tradeoffs.”The current plan will spread the burden of overcrowding more equally among Winthrop residents, Rosen said. “It would make it possible for every Winthropian to have their own room, even [if] it is a common room.”Over a year ago, the College convened...
...squabbling comes as the U.S. central bank chief, Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, is scrambling to shore up shaky financial markets. Among other actions, Bernanke this week helped prevent the bankruptcy of a major brokerage house, Bear Stearns, and cut U.S. interest rates 0.75 of a percentage point to try to keep America from slipping into recession. But in Japan, there's little central bank activity, despite the threat of recession, a sliding stock market, and the decline of the dollar to its lowest level against the yen in 13 years. "At this moment the situation is very...
...Half the world's population is going to be celebrating something," says Raymond Clothey, Professor Emeritus of Religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh. "My goodness," says Delton Krueger, owner of www.interfaithcalendar.org, who follows "14 major religions and six others." He counts 20 holidays altogether (including some religious double-dips, like Maundy Thursday and Good Friday) between the 20th (which is also quite crowded) and the 21st. He marvels: "There is no other time in 2008 when there is this kind of concentration...
...There are a sprinkling of major holidays (Western Christmas is one) that fall each year on the same day of the Gregorian calendar, a fairly standard non-religious system and the one Americans are most familiar with...