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These health workers are part of Women Health Volunteers (WHV), a network of 100,000 women who help the government with health and hygiene in urban areas like Tehran, one of the Middle East's biggest metropolises. Rapid urbanization as well as galloping population growth have swelled the city's citizenry from about 1.5 million in 1956 to close to 8 million in the city proper and pushed out its boundaries into a vast metropolitan area that's home to an additional 6 million...
...faces is offering universal health coverage. While primary and basic secondary health care are free, there are stark discrepancies when it comes to surgery and hospital care. Three decades into the revolution, some worry that without greater institutional commitment at the top, the initial enthusiasm that propelled the volunteer network could wane. "This engine is still thriving on its first start. It's like a car rolling down a hill with high speed," says Malek-Afzali. "Even if you stop pushing the gas pedal, it's going to roll." He is concerned that his brainchild could starve if the postrevolutionary...
...even if some companies are scaling back their event spending, the pinch isn't being felt by NBC, this year's broadcaster. While veterans like FedEx and General Motors are sitting out this year, the network says it has sold 90% of its advertising inventory, at a record average price of $2.9 million per 30-second spot. Which means that, in the end, the game will probably continue to be eclipsed by the commerce, if not the parties, built around it. (See pictures of the Giants' stunning Super Bowl victory last year...
...sense of rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins and a set of sextuplets, they were...
Melhem had come close to an Obama interview before. He nearly snared a Q&A during then candidate Obama's visit to the Middle East last summer. Disappointed but hardly deterred, he pressed his source network again after Obama's November election victory. "I began pushing hard when I realized that he was going to be serious about the Muslim world in the first part of his Administration," Melhem told TIME. The White House certainly knew who they were dealing with...