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...theater. But larger populations in Asia mean that greater numbers of C-sections are performed in this region, particularly in South Korea (36.4% of all births in the first half of 2006), Taiwan (with a rate of roughly 33%), Singapore (about 30%) and China (approximately 26%). In Thailand, Dr. Stephen Atwood of the maternal and child-health section of UNICEF's regional office, says, "I've seen statistics from Bangkok General Hospital that suggest the national rate is as high as 65% of all births." (The actual figure is unknown - the Thai Ministry of Public Health told TIME that...
...There never was an authentic or open policy debate in the six months leading up [to the invasion],” said Harvard Kennedy School professor Stephen M. Walt, an international relations theorist and one of the most prominent opponents of the war at Harvard...
...housing a bed, and that is more or less where they leave it,” said Ariel Quezada who is acting as the Winthrop House administrator in the absence of Karen J. Reiber.In an e-mail distributed over the list to Winthrop residents late last night, House Master Stephen P. Rosen ’74 apologized on behalf of the House administration for making the decision without consulting Winthrop residents.“You deserve the full back story, and the opportunity to discuss this with us, and to have a say in deciding the new housing policy...
...nation "continues to assign a higher priority to programs designed to confront conventional military threats, such as ballistic missiles," says terror expert Stephen Flynn, "than [to] unconventional threats, such as a weapon of mass destruction smuggled into the United States by a ship, train, truck or even private jet." The same logic led the country to spend 20 times more, last year, on protecting military bases than on safeguarding the infrastructure of U.S. cities. "We essentially are hardening military bases," Flynn told Congress recently, "and making civilian assets more attractive, softer targets for our adversaries...
...Stephen Hildreth, an expert in missile defense for the Congressional Research Service, addressing the same hearing of the House government reform committee's national-security panel, emphasized the epic technological challenge involved in building a nuclear-tipped, ocean-spanning missile. In the past half-century, only five nations - the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia - have managed to successfully develop, and then integrate, the requisite propulsion, guidance, reentry and warhead systems. "The long history of ICBMs demonstrates that such success took considerable resources in time, funding, knowledge, infrastructure, organization and national commitment," Hildreth said. "It's this aspect...