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...public health ("I suspect Bill Gates knows more about the molecular biology of mosquitoes than 95% of the doctors in the world," says Kim). And both use the language of business to describe the human experience. "There is no better return on investment than saving the life of a newborn," Melinda told reporters at a November press conference...
...outsourced janitors are employed through cleaning companies that manage their workers’ hours and wages. Outsourced workers do not receive the same benefits as direct employees. Direct employees can receive childcare allowances and short-term disability leave if, for example, they need to care for a newborn. Outsourced workers are not eligible for this benefit. An outsourced worker who takes a three-month leave to have a baby will not be compensated.Some outsourced workers do not receive healthcare benefits at all. Recently, Harvard hired Andrades Cleaning to provide janitorial workers. Seven Andrades employees are assigned 15 hours of work...
...border Mars is shown as a warrior, Saturn as an old man, Jupiter as a judge and Mercury as a scribe. Another manuscript illustration from 17th century India, Astrologers Working on a Nativity, shows a procession of musicmakers and gift bearers wending their way through palace walls toward a newborn who would grow up to be the 14th century warrior Tamerlane. In the midst of the busy scene, seven astrologers consult their texts and instruments. Although many of the era's intellectual and religious leaders didn't fully accept the tenets of astronomy, for example, they did allow Arab thinkers...
...stand still. Even if there were no further immigration, which is a pipe dream, birth rates alone will soon drastically alter the balance. Muslims have the highest birth rate--three times the rate of non-Muslims--of any demographic group in Europe. The most common name for a newborn in neighboring Brussels is Mohammed. Childbearing rates among non-Muslim Frenchmen are well below replacement levels. The old French, like the rest of Europe, are literally disappearing...
...hepatitis B are 1.5 times more likely to bear a boy instead of a girl. “Countries with more hepatitis have higher sex ratios [male to female] at birth,” she wrote in an e-mail. In most parts of the world, the number of newborn girls has roughly equaled the number of newborn boys. But historically there has been a pattern of gender imbalance in China—and over the past 20 years that gap has widened dramatically. There are now 1.07 boys born for each girl in China, compared to a ratio...