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...list of the 50 Most Stressful Colleges, The Daily Beast—an online news site—ranked Harvard fifth, behind Stanford, Columbia, MIT, and Penn. The schools were ranked based on a hodgepodge of disparate categories: cost, competitiveness, acceptance rate, crime on campus, and the ranking of their engineering programs...
According to the Daily Beast’s logic, Harvard’s minute acceptance rate is also a source of frustration for students, even after they get in. “More competitive schools generally produce a more competitive student body,” the post reads...
...results of the trial's first stage in India have been a testament to the influence of the easy, intimate get-together, more intuitive to many young mothers-to-be than one-on-one encounters with unfamiliar healthcare professionals. The neonatal mortality rate in the intervention areas, according to the data collected, dropped by a whopping 47% by the project's end in 2008. The entire three years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur...
...India could use a few fresh ideas when it comes to neonatal care. Behind the screen of its phenomenal economic growth, the country continues to struggle with abysmally high rates of newborn deaths. According to national estimates, for every 1,000 live births, 39 babies die in their first month; a third of these don't survive their first day. In Jharkhand and Orissa, two of east India's most impoverished and underserved states, the numbers are worse still - 49 and 45 deaths per 1,000 live births, respectively. The neonatal mortality rate in China, by comparison, lingers under...
...Nepal, where neonatal mortality in participating groups dropped by 30%, the benefits of the trial have endured. Recent estimates indicate that the neonatal mortality rate has now dipped under 30 per 1,000 live births, thanks also to the work of other NGOs and governmental organizations in the region. Two years ago, the Institute of Child Health withdrew funds and left, but the women kept on going. When Costello returned to visit recently, 75% of the groups were still active. "It's really impressive that our groups are still running," he recalls telling a cluster of women. "They...