On the Hawaiian island of Molokai, pregnant women who want a doctor in attendance when they give birth fly to neighboring Oahu or Maui.
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In Yemen, a High-Stakes Power Game as Saleh Is in Limbo
For the first time in 13 days, a lull has descended upon the fierce fighting between armed tribesmen and forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The consistent shelling and gunfire in the capital city of Sana’a have been replaced by a tense quiet, with most residents still choosing to stay in their homes or flee to ancestral villages.
With Elections Near, Australia’s Rudd Backs Off Ambitious Carbon Trading Plan
In the last three years, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has often used his podium to talk to the nation about climate change. He has called it “the great moral and economic issue challenge of our time,” comparing global warming skeptics to gamblers who “happily play with our children’s future.” It’s not random that Australia’s leader has been vocal on the issue: Despite being one of the more sparsely populated nations, Australia’s 22 million inhabitants emit the third largest amount of carbon dioxide per capita in the world
With Portugal’s New Government, the Promise of Harsh Cuts
It may have been the politician’s practiced habit of emotional concealment, but in his concession speech last night, the smiling outgoing Portuguese Prime Minister Jos Socrates hardly looked like a man distraught with defeat. Nor, for that matter, did his opponent, Paulo Passos Coelho, seem gleeful with triumph
A Brief History Of: The GI Bill
Few government programs have delivered on america’s promise as a land of opportunity as explicitly as the GI Bill.
How Should We Teach Our Kids about SEX?
SOME INGREDIENTS IN THE STEAMING HORmonal stew that is American adolescence: For Prom Night last week, senior class officers at Benicia High School in California assembled some party favors — a gift-wrapped condom, a Planned Parenthood pamphlet advocating abstinence and a piece of candy. “We know Prom Night is a big night for a lot of people, sexually,” senior Lisa Puryear told the San Jose Mercury News.
More Pain for Spain: The Cucumber Crisis’ Bad Timing
Anytime a bunch of politicians go on television to eat cucumbers, you know something is up. On Monday, there was Clara Aguilera, agriculture councilwoman for the region of Andalucia, pointedly biting into a whole cuke
Yemen’s Growing Chaos: When a Dictator Loses His Grip
Residents of Yemen’s capital Sana’a awoke on Tuesday to a dawn chorus of bird song and machine-gun fire. An uneasy truce between rebel tribesmen and loyalist troops had prevailed over the weekend
Taliban’s Afghanistan Strategy: First, Take Nuristan
Every morning at 8, Maulawi Zahir heads into Waygal district center, a remote mountain village of stone houses stacked almost vertically up granite slopes.
Cell Phone-Brain Cancer Study: Inconclusive Results
It has become one of the most controversial questions in cancer medicine: Can using a cell phone cause brain tumors?