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...attendant. Home-birth midwives say they accept only low-risk patients, which excludes women with diabetes, high blood pressure, multiple births or any other risky condition. Most midwives--who typically charge from $1,000 to $5,000 per birth, significantly less than the cost of a hospital delivery--travel with basic emergency medical equipment, including oxygen, resuscitation gear and medication to stop hemorrhaging. And all insist they practice preventively and know when--and how--to get a woman to a hospital...
...Obama is also scheduled to hold a fund raiser at the posh Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki that could rake in more than $500,000, reaping the rewards of being the first presidential nominee to travel to Hawaii since Richard Nixon in 1960. There's no word on where he might be staying during his visit, but he may want to avoid that particular hotel, which suffered a plague of bedbugs in April, according to the Pacific Business News...
...China transformed over the last two decades from an Olympic afterthought to athletic powerhouse and travel restrictions on its citizens eased, Chinese coaches suddenly have found themselves in hot demand. With the Games in Beijing, their home-turf knowledge is an advantage. Their expertise is particularly valued in sports in which China has traditionally dominated at the Olympics, such as diving, weightlifting, table tennis, gymnastics, and volleyball...
...wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also completely false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills, as well as evacuation drills. Because of the danger involved with having people travel down as many as 40 to 60 flights of stairs, and after learning that two heart attacks had resulted, the industry - working with the fire department - agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, drills would require building occupants to travel down three or four...
...head to listen, it became clear that the healing process was far from over. "For so many of my supporters, just like so many of Barack's supporters, this was a first-time investment of heart and soul and money and effort and sleepless nights and miles of travel," Clinton said. "You just don't turn it off like that...