In resource-poor settings, life-threatening obstetric complications still often go unidentified and pregnancy complications are frequently not properly managed by health services.
And its elaborate marketing campaign, including alliances with Budweiser and ESPN, prompted some suggestions that Jay-Z's branching-out into other business endeavors, and taste for the jet-setting life, had begun to undermine his street credibility.
Sample question: Do you find that conducting the whirlwind jet-setting life of an ultra-genius pop star artist and handbag designer leaves you time for quiet consultation with your muse?
The cautionary tale of a woman who has led a jet-setting life of sipping champagne on yachts and making love to preachermen in the sun, but somehow – and now to her great regret – forgotten to ever settle down and have a family.
But the jet-setting life of a Trock is equal parts glamour and tough grind.
Does Princess Superstar feel like she's missing out on any of that crazy, club-hopping, jet-setting life she used to lead before moving next door to the one percent to teach hip-hop to her toddler?
The other theme is an autobiographic account of Frenkel's own life, first growing up as a mathematically gifted child of Jewish heritage in the then notoriously anti-Semitic Soviet Union, overcoming all the obstacles put in his way in order to secure a mathematics education, and then moving to the United States to lead the jet-setting life of a world famous mathematician.
Mary Matalin, a longtime adviser to the Bush family and the wife of James Carville, the Democratic operative, recalled in a tearful interview that in those social settings family life and life in Washington were the first topics of conversation.
But while his eye for detail often brings his settings to life, some of his metaphors are only superficially artful.
He chose settings where life is hard to sustain — the Arctic, the urban ghetto, the sea, a plague-razed future — and where heroes must defy the odds.
