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...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...
...haven’t had a schedule like this for several years, because I haven’t had a team that I thought could handle it…could fight and be okay with maybe not coming up with a win, but have enough of a team unit to say ‘Bring it on. I don’t want you to do me any favors,’” Allard says. “This team, I feel, can handle it.” Harvard will need to be battle-tested when it heads...
...cultural training The amount of cultural experience we got varied. We had classes. We had some limited Arabic training. The biggest thing that was helpful in my unit was that we had soldiers who'd deployed before. A power-point presentation is wonderful, but it can't capture the experience of someone who's been here before. So all my soldiers who had deployed before, they became the cultural experts...
...progress Things are definitely getting better here. I'm not one to be overly optimistic about anything, but even during the time my unit has been in this area, we have seen things get better. We have seen people come back to jobs. Things have gotten much more secure. But I think everybody else realizes that it's so very tenuous. Things could fall apart so quickly...