List three facts about C-sections in the U.S. that has the World Health Organization worried

What will be an ideal response?


(1) one-third of babies are now delivered via C-section, the highest rate in the world ever; (2) the C-section rate increased 50 percent over the last decade; (3) C-sections are the leading form of surgery in the U.S. (4) C-sections are potentially dangerous and do not improve our infant or maternal health statistics, which are the worst in the world; (5) an increasing number of C-sections are elective and done for convenience.

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Adam Smith argues for the need of government regulation of the economy

a. true b. false

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Part of the reason that women are more obsessed with love than are men is because they tend to focus more on Eros and Ludus types of love, whereas men tend to focus on a Storge type of love

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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One conclusion that Chapter 5 suggests is that current-day discrimination is

a. more widespread than ever. b. now limited to minority groups. c. never directed toward immigrants. d. more subtle and hard to eradicate. e. irrelevant to employers.

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The claim that U.S. culture is wrongly dominated by a European, and especially English, way of life characterizes our culture as ________

a. ethnocentric. b. Afrocentric. c. Eurocentric. d. culturally relative.

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