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...some medical practitioners and natural-childbirth advocates, who label the Asian trend an epidemic. Their concern has been exacerbated by statistics recently released in the U.S., showing an increase in the cesarean rate - now at 31% of all births, up 50% from 10 years ago - coinciding with a rise in maternal mortality (although the nature of the correlation is not clear-cut and is debated by some experts). For every 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2003, 12.1 women died - the first time the figure exceeded 10 in 26 years. The number rose to 14 in 2004. Figures...
...pointless and ineffective. Following this same line of thinking, Oscar the Grouch ought to go through a happy streak, one that would hopefully overcome childhood depression, (for that matter Oscar needs to stop living in a trash can; the number of kids following his example there is on the rise...
...players. “Coach is a competitor,” says pitcher and captain Shelly Madick. “I think she is really, really tough. She conveys that toughness to all of us and I think it is a sign that we all sort of rise to the occasion as well.” Able to relate to both the pitchers and fielders, Allard’s years playing for the maize and blue trained her well to be a coach. “I was very touched by the award,” Allard says...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize for his comprehensive study of the tobacco industry. Brandt won the prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could not be reached by phone, said in an e-mail...
...pursue a Harvard education without incurring huge financial burdens,” he said. While the tuition increase is among the smallest in the better part of a decade, it is not the smallest in the Ivy League this year. Yale announced that tuition, room and board will rise by just 2.2 percent for next year. This comes after the New Haven school announced a major expansion to their financial aid program to provide assistance to families making up to $200,000 annually. Student fees at Yale have increased by an average of five percent over the past three years...