Word: sad
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...blame the obstetricians," says Dr. Melanie Habanananda, who is critical of both male and female obstetricians. "They don't give women confidence in their bodies ... They create an environment of fear around birth; it's terribly sad." In Taiwan, Kuo Su-chen, a professor in the nurse-midwifery department of the National Taipei College of Nursing, says that C-sections are common because "doctors have no patience. Most doctors want to end the birth quickly...
...story since the death of Princess Diana has played as big in the British press as the disappearance last May 3 of British toddler Madeleine McCann from a vacation apartment in Portugal. But as the U.K.'s famously aggressive tabloid press prepares stories to mark the anniversary of that sad event, they are now likely to proceed with uncharacteristic caution: on Wednesday, London's High Court handed a libel victory to the child's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, with a chilling effect...
...found his lack of contact with ordinary Iraqis both “frustrating” and “sad...
...Jwalamukhi. "We've achieved in three days what we were hoping to achieve in three months." Tsundue had been among the first batch of 101 marchers held on Thursday by Indian authorities. Organizers were also hoping the protests within Tibet and China would gather steam. "Much as we are sad for our brothers and sisters in Tibet, we want the protests to continue," said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women's Association. But since the passing of the Chinese deadline for the protestors to surrender at midnight Monday, the organizers of the protests in India have been treading...
...Sheinkopf recalls a sad moment from Spitzer's 1998 attorney general campaign: Spitzer had been charged with improperly using his father's money to help finance his career. He denied the truth until the last possible moment, when he finally admitted that his dad made it possible for him to lend his campaign millions. "I looked over and saw this man - thin, in shirtsleeves with frayed cuffs, holding himself in the corner," Sheinkopf says. "I thought, This must be the loneliest man on the planet. And in fact, he turned...