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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...
...Africa, AGRA is funding scientists working on new seed strains, bankrolling the breeders who produce them, and helping wholesalers expand their inventory. Most importantly it's enlisting locals like Odiambo as free-market agriculture extension officers, training them in the proper use of seeds and chemical fertilizers. "The farmer will leave the shop with the product, and also the knowledge of how to use it," says Esborne Baraza, who coordinates AGRA's efforts in western Kenya...
...works just south of the Sahara is likely to be very different from what would be successful in the Ethiopian highlands or the Congolese tropics. Rather than try to impose a transition to large-scale, industrialized agriculture, AGRA is providing small-scale farmers with a variety of products for use in traditional planting. The idea, says Joe DeVries, director of AGRA's seed program, isn't to supplant existing practices, but to supplement them. (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger...
...Benedict arrives in Israel during an eight-day visit to the Holy Land, his first since becoming Pontiff. The trip is a near carbon copy of one made by his predecessor John Paul II in 2000. The Vatican hopes to use the trip to build on its 44-year rapprochement with the world's Jews after centuries of conflict and persecution. During his papacy, John Paul became the first modern Pope to visit a synagogue, recognize the state of Israel and apologize for the role Christians played in the Holocaust...
...Washington Targeting Tax Havens President Obama has proposed cracking down on U.S. corporations that use offshore subsidiaries to lower their tax burdens. While most nations do not tax corporate profits earned abroad, Obama says doing so would put some $210 billion in U.S. coffers over the next 10 years. Critics say the change would make it harder for U.S. companies to compete globally and could spur some to relocate overseas. A 2008 report from the Government Accountability Office said 83 of the 100 largest public U.S. companies have subsidiaries in tax havens...