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Gaining even a modest amount of weight between pregnancies could lead to serious complications in childbirth, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, examined a population of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had their first and second births between 1992 and 2001. Researchers found that women who gained weight between pregnancies were at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and stillbirth. “It turns out that women...
...stated that she "shakes up France" [Sept. 18]. As you must know, this country has survived much more dangerous shaking, political or otherwise. And although Royal is quite right in declaring that one should not have to be "sad, ugly and boring to go into politics," what about being modest? Jean-Jacques Luccioni St.-Laurent-du-Var, France Doing Unto Others the issue regarding the treatment of prisoners suspected of being terrorists is fundamental to the strategy for winning the war on terrorism [Sept. 18]. The Bush Administration is living in the world of 50 years ago, a time when...
...show themselves and share the world equally with men. Exiles who fled such practices to seek refuge in Europe now find the evil is following them. As a female lawyer from Saudi Arabia once said to me: "The Koran does not ask us to bury ourselves. We must be modest. These fools who are taking niqab will one day suffocate like I did, but they will not be allowed to leave the coffin." Millions of progressive Muslims want to halt this Islamicist project to take us back to the Dark Ages. Straw is right to start a debate about what...
Investors may be sensing a trap. Daily stock trades at Charles Schwab fell 9% in August. That month investors poured money into stocks globally but withdrew $4 billion more than they put into U.S.-focused mutual funds. The figures for September were expected to show only modest improvement...
...into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates” is any indicator, the answer probably ranges in the millions. It might arouse the ire of many that someone like Jared C. Kushner ’03, despite what could politely be described as modest academic credentials according to the book, gained admission in the wake of a $2.5 million donation from his billionaire father. But even more galling than the thought of filthy lucre corrupting Harvard’s cherished meritocracy is the thought that the same spot could have been sold...