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...social history as a biography. In some of its most fascinating passages, Anne becomes the vehicle to convey Elizabethan rituals and beliefs. During her labor, midwives likely drew the curtains and lit the fire: bright light, they thought, might drive a laboring Anne insane, and locals construed the birth of her twins as the result of "inordinate sexual desire." When Anne's son died at age 11, perhaps of cerebral palsy, mourners carried his body through town on a tabletop. Respectful townspeople laid down their tools as the procession, led by Anne, passed...
...Roth, the situation is "horrific. We are praying as hard as we can for these babies." So is Ana Escobar. None of the Casa Quivira children - their names, dates of birth and arrival at the home pinned to their crib headboards - turned out to be Esther. But "I won't give up until I find my daughter," says Escobar. "There are a lot of people who adopt children without really knowing if the mother wanted to give them up or if they were stolen. Without knowing if the mother is suffering...
Researchers analyzed medical information on 9,439 mother-child pairs who received health care through Kaiser Permanente in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. All women gave birth between 1995 and 2000, and none had pre-existing diabetes. The women were screened for hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, and gestational diabetes; their children were measured for weight between the ages of 5 and 7 - what researchers call the adiposity-rebound period, during which excessive weight gain usually predicts adult obesity. Regardless of factors like race or ethnicity, birth weight and maternal weight gain or age, researchers found that the risk...
...have noticed the "American Owned" signs at motels for some time [Aug. 20]. Do the people who post them believe that being American by accident of birth makes them better than being American by choice? I never stay at one of the motels displaying such signs because I have made assumptions about the people behind them. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe they are just particularly proud citizens...
...true that no cadavers have been labeled KILLED BY DBCP, scientific bodies from the National Academy of Sciences to the World Health Organization have classified dozens of pesticides as powerful animal carcinogens that are likely to cause cancer in humans. Human studies have found that pesticides also cause birth defects in farmworkers, as well as nerve damage and genetic mutations...