There’s nothing more natural than being born. There’s also nothing quite as fraught. A whole lot can go wrong during that long and tortuous journey from the womb to the world
Doctors Versus Midwives: The Birth Wars Rage On
Tag Archives: crisis
Ready for a Fight: Russia’s New Security Policy
Diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas will push countries into violent competition, the Kremlin predicted in a long-awaited national security strategy paper released this week. The document foresees these struggles playing out in the Arctic as well as the Middle East, the Barents Sea, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia — and states that Russia is prepared to fight for its share of the world’s resources
Ferrari seek court injunction over F1 rules
Ferrari have applied to a French court for an injunction against the proposed changes in Formula One, according to FIA president Max Mosley. Ferrari are among the teams who have threatened to withdraw from Formula One at the end of this season unless fundamental revisions are made to the new regulations
Growing Old with Autism: The Silent Struggle
Noah, my younger brother, does not talk.
Terrorism-Linked Charity Finds New Life Amid Pakistan Refugee Crisis
Just five months after Pakistan banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa over its links to the terrorist organization blamed for last November’s Mumbai massacre, the Islamist charity group’s flags are flying high over a relief effort for refugees fleeing the fighting in the Swat Valley. The banned group’s signature black-and-white banner bearing a scimitar flew in the heart of Mardan as tens of thousands of refugees poured into the northwest garrison town, fleeing the military campaign to oust the Taliban from Swat and its surroundings.
Sony ends year with first loss in 14 years
The Sony Corp.
Refugee Crisis Clouds Pakistan’s Anti-Taliban War
It is in refugee camps like Chotha Lahore, rather than on the battlefields of the Swat Valley, that the outcome of Pakistan’s decisive showdown with the Taliban may be decided. The camp, near the town of Swabi, is sheltering some of the hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by the government offensive to drive the militants out of the Swat Valley and its surrounds. “The purpose [of the campaign] is to cleanse the areas of these miscreants and militants,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told TIME
North Korea Invades! (And Other Pentagon War Games)
North Korean forces are invading South Korea. Drug gangs along the U.S.-Mexican border are seizing parts of El Paso, Texas.
Mia Farrow ends fast after health concerns
Mia Farrow ended her liquid-only fast aimed at calling attention to the crisis in Darfur after 12 days as her health took "a downturn," according to her publicist. Farrow began her fast last month to call attention to the demand that “world leaders take immediate action and demand that international aid is restored” to Darfur, her publicist said. The actress planned to fast for three weeks, but under doctor’s orders she will hand off to billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, who will start his planned three-day fast a week early, said Jonathan Freedman
‘High school dropout crisis’ continues in U.S., study says
Nearly 6.2 million students in the United States between the ages of 16 and 24 in 2007 dropped out of high school, fueling what a report released Tuesday called "a persistent high school dropout crisis." The total represents 16 percent of all people in the United States in that age range in 2007. Most of the dropouts were Latino or black, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Alternative Schools Network in Chicago, Illinois. “Because of the widespread, pressing nature of the crisis and the large numbers of young people who have already dropped out, a national re-enrollment strategy should be a fundamental part of America’s national education agenda,” the report says.