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Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference...
IN downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., a 30year-old mother walked through a door marked Crisis Walk-in Clinic last month and confessed that she had beaten her one-year-old daughter so savagely that the child had had to be hospitalized. It was the first of nine visits, to some...
These dangers must be set against the greater hazards of pregnancy. For three weeks after a normal pregnancy and delivery, the risks of thromboembolism (including pulmonary embolism) are greatly increased, and even during pregnancy may be slightly increased. Northwestern University's Dr. David Danforth calculated for the College of...
In Manhattan, at city-owned Metropolitan Hospital, Dr. Elizabeth B. Connell has had more than 1,000 women, some for as long as four years, taking a pill consisting only of chloramadinone, a progestin, every day of the year. Side effects seem to be fewer and less severe than those...
Shifting Depreciation. An increasingly popular stratagem is for companies to reduce the rate at which they write off -that is, deduct from their taxable income-the cost of new facilities. The results can be astonishing. U.S. Steel raised last year's reported profits 59% above what they otherwise would...