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...Land Rover, however, it got the product mix right and sales increased - they jumped 18% last year to 226,400. So why is Ford also unloading Land Rover? "I think they're desperate for cash. It's not a good thing when a company sells off a profitable unit," says John Wormald, managing partner at consultant Autopolis. Ford has lost $15.3 billion over the last two years...
...this war, but for those of us who live and fight in Iraq, we measure that cost in smaller, but much more personal numbers. For me those numbers are 8, the number of friends and classmates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 3, the number of soldiers from my unit killed in this deployment. I'm 25, yet I've received more notifications for funerals than invitations to weddings...
...means you have to go sit in a paddy field to have your baby." Cesareans, she says, "have become very fashionable, especially among middle-class women" A third of the babies at Bangkok's private Samitivej Hospital, for instance, are delivered by C-sections, even though its birth unit was set up by Dr. Tanit Habanananda specifically to promote natural childbirth. (Those babies are also almost entirely born to Thai mothers. The foreign women who make up a large portion of Samitivej's admissions prefer to try for natural birth, says Dr Boonsaeng Wuttihpan, head of Samitivej's birth unit...
...Sources: A.P.; BBC; JPMorgan Chase; A.P.; New York Times; Financial Times Numbers Sources: A.P.; Mortgage Asset Research Institute; Wall Street Journal (2); BBC; EADS Astrium; A.P.; Economist Intelligence Unit...
...first-team All-Ivy, ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District first team, All-Northeast Region second team, and most recently one of 30 candidates for the Lowe’s senior CLASS Award—are not what matter most to Madick. Working with her teammates, developing as a unit, winning—those are things that count to Madick.“I don’t feel any pressure to win, I just want to win,” Madick says.If Harvard is going to defend its Ivy title, Madick will have to show her teammates...