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...that the double standard is a great unspoken inequity but that candidates and officeholders don't dare publicly discuss it for fear of seeming trivial. In an interview before her death last year, Ann Richards, the famously white-haired former Governor of Texas, told me, "You can't appear to be too flashy because it will send the wrong message, but at the same time, you need to appear energetic. The issue is much more significant for women because the hurdle is higher in our society. We're not sure what we want our [female] elected officials to be - mother...
...more tenaciously than to the open-and-honest part. And in doing so, they have presided over a narrowing of the range of acceptable looks for women. Women may be CEOs, Cabinet officers and TV-news anchors and may openly indulge their sexual appetites - but only if they appear eternally youthful. And a main requirement is a hair color other than gray or white...
...lawmakers earlier this year ratified the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which will tighten controls - by closely tracking the use of adoption fees and by creating a centralized adoption authority that can be easily regulated - in both Guatemala and the U.S when it takes effect January 1. As stories appear in the Guatemalan media about child traffickers rushing to find children before the year's end, citizen mobs in several small towns have attacked suspected baby-snatchers, in some cases beating or burning them alive...
Doctors believe that maternal diabetes increases children's obesity risk through what's referred to as metabolic imprinting. The idea is that outside of other genetic and environmental risk factors for obesity, children appear to become metabolically imprinted, or pre-programmed, for obesity by being overfed in the womb - a direct result of the mother's high blood sugar. "As we have more people with diabetes and gestational diabetes during pregnancy I think the importance of additional risk factors for obesity increases," says Hillier. "And if there is an alteration going on to program the child for obesity I think...
...date, the AKP have carved out a reputation as reformers; starting accession talks to join the European Union, introducing reforms under which the economy has boomed and improving human rights. Despite several misfires - like trying to introduce a ban on adultery - they appear to be moving towards the political center...