Where Life's Start is a Deadly Risk - Excerpted from the NYT

More than half of the 536,000 women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth are in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/health/24birth.html?th&emc=th

Anna Msami’s son, who died in the womb, is buried by his grandmother and neighbors behind the grandmother’s house at the edge of a maize field



Two-year old quadruplets at the Berega orphanage.  Their mother died shortly after giving birth.

Two to three pregnant women have to share a single bed in the maternity ward at the Mawenzi Hospital in Moshi

Hamadi Khaldi with his son Ibrahim.  His wife bled to death after giving birth to Ibrahim, her sixth child, at a health center in Moshi

What Does a Recession Look Like?

May 31, 2009

The Fall of the Mall

By LEFTLOFT

“What does a recession look like? Well, here’s one view, as seen through retail sales. The theoretical mall maps below show 27 companies with stores or restaurants in malls across America. (In some cases, these companies own more than one chain of stores.) In the bottom map, the change in the size of the stores is determined by sales in the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the same quarter in the previous year. Color in the bottom map is meant to indicate the depth of the drop — or the height of the rise — in sales. The deeper the red, the steeper the loss.”

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/31/opinion/20090531_OPCHART.html?th&emc=th