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...highest concentration of Roma, still fail to obtain informed consent or to advise Roma patients of other options, such as contraceptives. Their actions, the report contends, are fueled by fears, widespread in Slovakia, of Roma overpopulation, as well as the belief of many Slovak doctors that repeat deliveries via caesarean section can be dangerous - hence the recommended sterilization after two or three such deliveries. Indeed, the CRR finds that medical practitioners "appeared to unnecessarily and irresponsibly perform C-sections on Romany women at least in part as a pretext for sterilizing them." The CRR also reports "systematic and glaring racial...
...Southern Tigers, who are in first place, have two African-American imports?Nick Sheppard, from Pepperdine via the Harlem Globetrotters, and Jason Dixon, out of Liberty University by way of Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Cyprus. But as Healthy Ma says, it's a team game. The visitors' homegrown guards are as quick as cats, darting untouched among the grasping Shanghainese...
Work. I hear that you are assessed via a Grade Point Average. This sounds like tyranny—you must have to, like, do work all the time. We, in contrast, are only assessed in eight exams at the end of our final year, which has the obvious benefit of meaning that no one does any work until several months before they graduate, and can waste their time writing columns commenting on?...
...very glad to read that the FAS Office of the Registrar is making steady progress in allowing undergraduate students to view and update their personal and academic information via the Internet (News, “Website Eases Access To Academic Records,” Jan. 22). Still, such slow progress is almost laughable compared to the much more powerful and convenient Axess system at Stanford University...
Your article on CEO pilots mentions the high cost of training and of renting a small plane, but there are much greater costs. I have had four colleagues who, along with their families, perished in crashes. By comparison, I have lost one friend in a car crash and none via commercial flights. All four of my pilot friends were qualified for night and bad-weather flights. Like J.F.K. Jr., too many small-craft pilots don't fly often enough to stay sharp, or they take off, bad weather or not, because plans were made and time is short. Give...