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...taken aback to read that some people involved in clinical trials, especially pregnant women, did not find out about a medication's possible side effects before participating. A drug that is only in the testing stages should be regarded as unsafe until proved otherwise. It is outrageous that a physician would allow a pregnant woman to take part in a test. Are we so hungry for cures that we are willing to risk unborn human lives? JENNIFER HOYDICZ Ridgefield...
...young children hasn't changed," says Belkin. "Our expectations have. We were the generation who were told we could have everything." When women who were raised to believe they could rule the world suddenly find they no longer can--and sometimes no longer even want to--they're taken aback. Especially since all the training and education they have undertaken have left them ill prepared for mothering. As a result, they feel as if they are the first humans ever to try to scale that mountain...
Cole, unsure of how to accept the odd compliment, merely smiled and reflexively thanked the timer. Though he was slightly taken aback by the congratulatory greeting, it wasn’t the first time Cole had heard the “Harvard” angle before...
...those things are so fundamentally important, I was taken aback when they were questioned,” he said...
...Clark is no stranger to controversy. An ardent promoter of new writing through his Out Of Joint company, he brought to the stage such succès de scandale as Mark Ravenhill's 1996 hit about sex and consumerism, Shopping and F______. Even he, though, may have been taken aback by the furor that has attended his latest project: Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, a co-production between Out Of Joint, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and London's Royal National Theatre...