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...what your daddy would call a Hard Headed Woman? Not at all. That's someone who's stubborn. I'm rebellious...
...Movement, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Think of Tiananmen, and the repeated ideological cashiering of leaders and mistreatment of dissidents since then. China has made little effort to work through the psychologically complex process of acknowledgment, apology and repentance. Instead, its leaders have remained frozen in stubborn postures of self-justification...
...That's why international experts are now nervously scrutinizing the poultry flocks of Cambodia where birds and ducks are routinely raised in close proximity to human living quarters and sold live at unhygienic wet markets. In neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam, such conditions led to the stubborn spread of bird flu, first among poultry, then in a handful of human beings. So far, Cambodia hasn't reported any major outbreaks, but Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, fears it may already be entrenched there. "This virus is not just endemic in Vietnam...
Once the baby's out, feeding begins, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) has revised its guidelines on breast feeding to answer some stubborn questions. Among their conclusions: it's O.K. to sleep in the same bed with your baby, to make feeding easier and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, as long as there is no loose bedding and the mattress is firm--although the risk exists of a parent rolling over and smothering a small child. (We've ordered a bassinet that attaches to the bed.) The A.A.P. suggests feeding babies only breast milk...
That level of growth is still relatively weak by U.S. or Asian standards. And it seems to have little effect on stubborn unemployment in the euro zone, where the jobless rate is just below 9%, unchanged from a year ago. But some of the panelists were heartened by what they see as genuine efforts by governments across the Continent to tackle some persistent problems, including a lack of labor mobility and unsustainable health-care and pension systems. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has introduced a slew of new measures designed to create jobs, including unpopular cutbacks in unemployment benefits...