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...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...
When Margaret Ray Ringenberg first saw an airplane cockpit at age 7, she fell in love with flight. Though she took lessons as a young woman, she was resigned to reaching the skies as a flight attendant--until the Army Air Force began recruiting women pilots in 1940. As Tom Brokaw recounts in his book The Greatest Generation, her father said, "I didn't get to serve and I don't have any boys, so I guess you'll have to do it." During World War II, Ringenberg flew military planes across the U.S., ultimately logging some 40,000 hours...
...didn't. Oh, ye publishing gods and goddesses, must it be the fate of every entertainingly hate-filled monster to be reduced to a lovable curmudgeon? Apparently it must. Our man is visited by a woman with angel wings tattooed on her back who believes that she and he were lovers in 14th century Germany. She is a psychiatric patient who is also a world-famous sculptor of gargoyles. I would very much like to stop summarizing the plot now. Instead, here is a quote from their inevitable love affair: "A cheese strand dangled from her mouth to the edge...
...wife, Aisha, was the source for many of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad, who trusted her wisdom and integrity. "For centuries, women have been distanced from religion, from the pillars of Islam," says Rajaa Naji El Makaoui, a law professor in Rabat who, in 2003, was the first woman ever invited to give a speech at the royal palace during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting. It is time, she adds, for women to assume their equal role once more. Or, at least, almost equal. The female guides perform nearly all the same functions as male imams, or preachers...
...everyone is buying the move to moderation. The most credible critic of the regime is a fashionably attired woman who covers her hair, Islamic-style, with a Parisian silk scarf. Nadia Yassine leads the Justice and Spirituality Movement, a nonviolent organization with more than 35,000 members and many more sympathizers. She scoffs at the government's efforts to combat religious radicalism by standardizing Koranic teaching and sending female guides into the slums: "This is Islam Lite. It's like throwing powder in our eyes to distract us." She argues that "real changes" are impossible without improving Morocco's level...