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Cesarean sections were once a measure of last resort, a final attempt to save both mom and baby if things did not go well during delivery. That was almost certainly the case in Roman times with Julius Caesar, who was born via the procedure, and for whom it was named. But today, a trend toward elective cesareans is presenting doctors with another problem - women who insist on delivering earlier than they should, with potential risks to the newborn. Now, researchers at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
...months has only worsened the suffering of civilians there. Despite Israeli claims that it is allowing and even aiding humanitarian agencies in the territory, a million Gazans do not have electricity and 250,000 do not have running water as a result of the clash. Meanwhile, the NGO Save the Children reports a “severe shortage of food” and the World Food Programme’s stores have been rendered inaccessible by the fighting, while the International Committee of the Red Cross has had difficulty getting medical resources to injured or dying civilians. No matter...
...every scenario save a very long Israeli occupation (which is unlikely), Hamas will have an opportunity to eventually regenerate. New fighters can be trained, new rockets acquired, new smuggling tunnels built. If Israel's choke hold on Gaza for the past year hasn't stopped Hamas from arming itself, then it's a good bet that the presence of international monitors won't either...
...Gross Domestic Product growth was higher than that of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, or Japan, as well as the average for advanced economies, according to International Monetary Fund projections. President Bush has also made an unprecedented effort to reach beyond our borders and save lives overseas. His efforts to fight AIDS in Africa have been extraordinary. In Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s own words, “The president’s Emergency Action Program for HIV/AIDS has saved more than a million lives. It may be the greatest legacy this president leaves...
...idea of Judaism can be represented through a classic Talmudic dilemma: You are walking along by the river and there are two people drowning. One is Rabbi [Meir] Kahane, and the other is the Dalai Lama. You can only save one of them. For whom will you jump? If you jump for Rabbi Kahane because genetically he's Jewish, you belong to a different camp than mine, because I would jump for the Dalai Lama. As much as he's not genetically Jewish, he's my Jewish brother when it comes to my value system. That's the difference between...