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| Sat, 3 Jun 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Rich man, poor man |
| Americans remain optimistic that it is possible the American dream has not receded entirely into the mists of history. We still have faith in it because, as a people, we are natural optimists. The hard reality, however, is that it is no longer possible for more than a very small minority to start out poor, work hard, and become well off. Our fabled equal-opportunity society is in hostage to a gathering of circumstances we must address with urgency, for the sake of social justice, but also to obtain the greatest benefits from the talents of our fellow citizens and maintain a cohesive community. |
| Sat, 3 Jun 2006 18:00:00 EST Bernadine Healy, M.D.: Birthing by appointment |
| Cesareans are in; pushing is out. The pros and cons of this new reality are laid out in the National Institutes of Health's report on the rising tide of cesareans by mother's choice, not medical necessity, published in the June issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Close to a third of our little ones enter the world through a surgical incision in their mom's belly, up from about 5 percent during most of the past century. And this is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in private clinics and hospitals. Among Brazil's most educated and affluent women, for example, C-sections account for over 70 percent of deliveries. By World Health Organization standards, these rates are out of control and should be no more than 15 percent. The Department of Health and Human Services agrees and wants to bring our nation's numbers into that range by 2010. Good luck. As more women expect that the mode of delivery is up to them, the rate of C-sections is apt to rise even higher. |
| Sat, 3 Jun 2006 18:00:00 EST To Gary Slutkin, giving up guns is a lot like swearing off smoking |
| 'Violence is an infectious disease," says Gary Slutkin. He's a man who knows his diseases, having battled tuberculosis in San Francisco, cholera in Mogadishu, and AIDS in Uganda as an epidemiologist for the World Health Organization. In fact, when Slutkin returned home to Chicago to be near his aging parents after 10 years abroad, he wondered, "What the heck am I going to work on?" In a country with electricity, running water, and medical care, he figured, there would be no public-health problems that even come close. |
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| Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:50:48 GMT Indianapolis neighbors mourn slain family
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 AP - Candlelight flickered Sunday night as a neighborhood united on the street for song and prayer outside the home where seven family members were gunned down three days earlier.
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| Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:12:08 GMT Mourners remember girl in mistaken ID case
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 AP - For five weeks, he sat by her hospital bed, talked to her, held her hand. During those many hours together, Aryn Linenger said he never doubted that he was comforting his beloved girlfriend of three years, Laura VanRyn.
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| Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:59:17 GMT Masked gunmen kill 21 Shiite students
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 AP - Masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad Sunday, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites "in the name of Islam," a witness said.
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| Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:38:55 EDT Canada Muslims condemn 'bomb plot' |
| Canadian Muslim organizations condemn an alleged plot to bomb Toronto-area buildings, while a lawyer for one of the 17 suspects in custody calls the charges against them "vague." Sheik Husain Patel, a spokesman for the Canadian Council of Muslim Theologians, said the allegations against the young men represented "anti-Islamic behavior" if true. |
| Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:34:32 EDT Iran warns U.S. on oil shipments |
| Ayatollah Ali Khameni, Iran's supreme leader, today warned the United States that any "misbehavior" directed at Iran would serve to disrupt Gulf energy shipments. Khameni did not specify what he meant by misbehavior. Iran is embroiled in a standoff with the West over its nuclear ambitions. |
| Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:01:22 EDT Man tries to jump White House fence |
| The Secret Service arrested a man who was trying to jump the White House fence carrying a suspicious package on Sunday. |
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