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Or so I thought. Further research indicates that my acquaintance was far from alone; according to a 2008 Gallup poll, about 11 percent of Americans still think that global warming “will never happen.” (Within the scientific community, this statistic is only three percent.) Perhaps...
Why the VBAC-lash? Not so long ago, doctors were actually encouraging women to have VBACs, which cost less than cesareans and allow mothers to heal more quickly. The risk of uterine rupture during VBAC is real--and can be fatal to both mom and baby--but rupture occurs in...
In a report issued last week by US News and World Report that ranked schools according to popularity, Harvard topped the list, defeating all other schools in the top 50 percentile of colleges nationwide. The ranking was based on the percentage of students accepting a school’s offer...
India has been trying to build toward 10 million foreign tourist visits in 2010, the year New Delhi hosts the Commonwealth Games. It is an ambitious goal: this year's statistic is just about half that. The 'Incredible India' campaign, launched in 2002, has spent millions of dollar advertising India...
In virtually every other sport, whether it's extra innings in baseball, overtime in basketball or a playoff in golf, both teams or players competing get an equal opportunity to win. But the format for overtime in the NFL is different, and inherently unfair. If the game is tied after...