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After 1980, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a conference on skyrocketing cesarean rates, more women began having VBACs. By 1996, they accounted for 28% of births among C-section veterans, and in 2000, the Federal Government issued its Healthy People 2010 report proposing a target VBAC rate of 37%. Yet as of 2006, only about 8% of births were VBACs, and the numbers continue to fall--even though 73% of women who go this route successfully deliver without needing an emergency cesarean...
...million dollars every day since the birth of Christ, you wouldn’t reach a trillion dollars until sometime after the year 2700. A stimulus package priced somewhere between $800 billion and $1 trillion was not an easy thing to grasp. By its nature, it was the biggest target that any simple-minded or cynical politician ever had to shoot at in the entire annals of American domestic spending...
...That was then. Today, the septuagenarian pair are increasingly hostile business rivals, whose subordinates snipe in the Italian press and target each other's star television talent. "It's getting aggressive now, some low blows," says Pietro Candela, a media consultant with Booz and Co. in Milan. "This is what real, nasty competition looks like." (See pictures of Rupert Murdoch...
Last month, Obie guessed that his Ponzi caseload would hit about one per month, but he later increased that prediction to two a month. With six such cases in the first 45 days of the year, it looks to be an easy target...
...said. “Cornell played an excellent game, and we have a lot of respect for them.” POWER PLAYDespite holding a 20-shot deficit to the Big Red on the night, the Crimson’s offensive unit was right on target when it did make attempts at net. The Crimson’s surge came in spite of playing against the nation’s stingiest goaltender in the Big Red’s Ben Scrivens. Leading up to Saturday night’s game, Scrivens led the nation in save percentage...