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...rupture during labor with potentially dire consequences - it is likely that her subsequent children will also be surgically delivered, multiplying all of these risk factors each time. "If there is no medical reason to have a C-section, we would advise [women] to have a vaginal delivery," says Professor Tan Kok Hian of KK Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore...
...price soared from $44 to $60 a share by noon on its first day of trading is simply that the company has massive growth potential, especially internationally. Visa Europe will remain a separate company for now, but "in the developing world, we are just scraping the surface," says Clifford Tan, an economist and visiting scholar at the Stanford Center For international Development. Visa's U.S. revenue grew a healthy 23% in fiscal year 2007, but its international revenue soared 57% over 2006. And as formerly cash-based economies in South Korea, China and India embrace the new electronic forms...
...trademark tan has dimmed, and his voice softens when he recounts the tumultuous events surrounding his downfall as a corporate titan. But if former Vivendi Universal CEO Jean-Marie Messier no longer boasts the "master of the world" moniker, don't expect to find him repudiating his stint as an empire-building media tycoon either. "I still receive e-mails and get stopped in the street by young people saying 'You gave me the desire to form my own company,'" says Messier...
...marriage. Michelle E. Oboite ’08 discussed a relative who has undergone female circumcision, who Oboite said views it as a cultural practice that “doesn’t demean her as a woman.” Other audience members were not convinced. Katherine Y. Tan ’10 said that the discussion group should not “exoticize the issue” by attributing it solely to cultural practices. Other discussion members cited health problems related to the practice of female circumcision. It can lead to problems with childbirth and menstruation, several said...
...written about him. And a book. And a screenplay. He gave radio interviews in Moscow. Nevertheless, in the 1990s, there were few known photographs of him. In 2003, however, he agreed to an interview with the New York Times Magazine and stood for a portrait dressed in a nappy tan suit. In the interview, Bout tried to paint himself as a hard-working entrepreneur, vegetarian and nature lover who just happened to spend a lot of time flying into African conflict zones...