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...public cord-blood banks. That's largely because few parents are aware that public donation is even a possibility. Instead, if a mother-to-be has heard of cord-blood banking at all, she's considered private banking, or the storage of her infant's own cord blood, an option costing up to $3,000 plus annual fees. Parents generally see private banking as an insurance policy should their child or a sibling fall ill later in life. Public donation does not guarantee availability to the donor's family should the need later arise. "If you don't save...
...Iraq soon, in even larger numbers. Determined as the Turks may be, their military efforts have failed to solve the PKK problem since the 1980's when Kurds in southeastern Turkey began rebelling against discrimination by the Turkish state. There's little reason to believe that the military option will work this time, either. Most of the PKK's fighters in Iraq are based well away from the Turkish border, and there are plenty still running around inside Turkey as well...
...effective means to advance the religious cause. In Swat, a picturesque valley that has been besieged by Fazlullah's militant forces, the government has proposed the implementation of Shari'a. Bhutto's husband and de facto successor, Asif Ali Zardari, says he will eschew the military option in favor of dialogue with militants in the restive tribal areas along the border. That approach could work, but it requires the Pakistani people to take a firm position on who takes control of their religion. The extremists have already shown that they are willing to die defending their brand of Islam...
...government has very belatedly concluded that a state takeover of Northern Rock is the only option. But even that has been badly mishandled. What should have been done was to put in a management with a remit to close the bank to new business, to stop all future lending, and to confine itself to managing the existing loan book and selling it off piecemeal to private-sector buyers as market conditions improve. After all, by one estimate, there is now some $200 billion of taxpayers' exposure to protect. Nor, of course, is the survival of Northern Rock of any strategic...
...While Dominguez acknowledges that there was opposition to the move, he adds that Harvard had no option but to cut part of HMI loose...