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When the placenta did come out, Cassandra, dazed from 21 hours of labor, somehow made sure the nurses delivered it to us in a flat plastic container, which I put into an ice-filled Monsters vs Aliens cooler I brought. When I asked if I could keep the placenta overnight in the refrigerator out in the hall, the nurses looked at me like I was crazy. When you gross out people who work at a hospital, you have accomplished something...
...Harvard because we clearly are in a very serious financial state,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, former dean of Harvard College. “This is a place where it takes a lot to understand how it works. The learning curve is not overnight...
Camps have been eager to negotiate. Some are even leaving it up to parents to decide what they can afford. In New York City, overnight YMCA camps have started a tiered-payment system in which parents essentially use an honor code to determine whether they need to get up to a $400 discount on the $1,397 tuition for the two-week sessions. As of June, 43% of enrollees had opted to pay the full amount, 13% took $200 off and 44% took all $400 off. (Read "Recession Shopping: 10 Things to Buy Right...
...which affects not only casinos but also slot machines and bookmakers - is set to push up unemployment levels in one of the regions already hardest hit by the economic crisis. In Russia, an estimated 400,000 people will be put out of work, and in Ukraine, "overnight, 200,000 workers have been left without a job," says Hryhoriy Trypulsky, vice president of the Ukrainian Association of Gambling Operators. "The legislation has been rushed through without any thought of the consequences...
...Have Ben Bernanke's green shoots magically turned into tropical forests overnight? Hardly. There may be some justification for how stock-market indexes in the U.S. and Hong Kong have soared from their lows in March, when it seemed the global economy was sliding off a cliff. But this incipient IPO mania is a different story. Investors are bidding up the stocks of Chinese companies not because their shares had been unfairly pummeled, but because of expectations for future growth that...