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Back to Basics The only way to decrease the rate of Cesarean sections is to go back and teach residents the art of obstetrics, which includes the proper use of the forceps and the vacuum extractor [The Trouble with Repeat Cesareans, April 27]. We should also stop the interference of lawyers in the management of deliveries by making litigation very difficult. During the 1960s the institution with the lowest rate of cesareans was considered the best for training residents. Neonatologists agree that increasing the rate of cesareans does not necessarily mean better babies. Fayez Suidan M.D., AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT...
...decades ago saw the arrests of some 400 political opponents in the first year of his rule. Nasheed prides his party - many of whose members suffered in Gayoom's prisons - for not creating a climate of retribution. He delights in the lessons this little country's democracy struggle can teach the outside world, drawing a parallel between Gayoom's autocratic rule, with its layers of corrupt bureaucracy, censorship and repressive police, and that of the state-domineering Baathism of Iraq under Saddam Hussein - a man who ranked among Gayoom's personal friends. "We have a blueprint here in the Maldives...
...Harvard wants to continue to be a leader in higher education, it must see the financial reorganization as an opportunity to teach students to think critically about making collective sacrifices. We are the reason the College was created, and we deserve to both learn from and contribute to the problem-solving process. This financial crisis is one of the greatest in Harvard’s history, and all voices in the College community must be included in order to preserve Harvard as we know it today and to improve it for the future...
...Many graduate students’ primary source of income is their salary from leading sections, McCarty said. Graduate students earn roughly $5,000 per course they teach. Many graduate students teach two courses a semester, earning them about $20,000 per year...
...judge their success by their relationships. Men’s happiness and success hinge on their accomplishments.” Even in public schools, many abstinence-only programs are run by religious organizations. For example, the federal government gave the Catholic Diocese of Orlando an $800,000 grant to teach abstinence. This intermingling of church and state would be inappropriate enough even if it did not translate to religiously biased teaching. But, in many cases, the House report found it did just that, as the program promoted religious dogma such as the belief that life begins at conception, or that...