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...Dorado. From luxury brands to supermarket chains to machinery companies, a growing number of Western firms has discovered that this country of 141 million can be highly lucrative for those positioned to capitalize on a consumption boom fueled by massive oil and gas exports. The result has been a huge surge in foreign direct investment: last year Russia attracted $52.5 billion - four times the $12.9 billion it pulled in as recently as 2005. That puts it ahead of two of the three other BRIC countries, India and Brazil. And while it still lags behind China in absolute terms, Russia...
...with natural-childbirth advocacy that started a new wave of home births in the 1970s [Aug. 18]. As one who is still advocating for women today, I'd like to correct a widely held myth repeated in your article: that the mass move to hospital births accounted for the huge drop in the maternal mortality rate between 1940 and 1960. Actually, public-health developments such as the availability of antibiotics, blood transfusions and intravenous fluids accounted for most of that reduction in the death rate. The real question is why that rate has doubled since 1982. Remember: the home-birth...
...feel about being compared to J.K. Rowling? -David Sobalvarro WASHINGTONIt's mixed. On one hand, it's really flattering. I'm a huge fan. On the other hand, there is a bit of backlash because then people say, "Who does she think she is?" And then I feel bad, like I'm the one going around and saying this, which I'm not. I don't enjoy that side...
...while on holiday. For the past 20 years his family has chartered a yacht on the Mediterranean. In that time, he couldn't help noticing how the old marinas at Monaco, St. Tropez, Antibes and elsewhere had no easy way to expand even as more and more huge yachts came off the production lines. As a result, berth rental prices shot up. At Antibes, for example, they've risen nearly 30% in five years...
There has also been some criticism that you've helped fuel that idea that the election is about you - for example, with the huge rallies...