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Nearly 11 million children under age 5 die annually, more than a third of them from neonatal problems like preterm birth. The other top causes...
Then on April 19, 2004, posting on nazi.org Weise wrote that there was a suspected plot to shoot up his school the next day, the anniversary of Hitler's birth. "Just because I claim being a National Socialist, guess whom they've pinned?" And yet one can almost sense glee, in what he described on another site, at the commotion stirred up by the threat. "The feds were all around the place, watching, cop cars on nearly every corner around the school and a few large unmarked black vans sitting around. I bet they were on standby. So they WERE...
...well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass” as a person without cognitive disability. (I have severe cerebral palsy, the result of being deprived of oxygen at birth. While some people with cerebral palsy do have cognitive disability, my articulation difference and atypical muscle tone are automatically associated with cognitive disability in the minds of some people...
...findings will lead to EGCG-based drugs that have fewer side effects than methotrexate, which can cause vomiting and hair loss, among other ills. But as is often the case with promising medical discoveries, there are caveats. Excessive drinking of green tea by pregnant women has been linked to birth defects. And Thorneley warns that it could take up to 10 years to develop and start to test new treatments. In the meantime, a couple of daily cups of cha can't hurt. "I usually only have a sip of my wife's green tea," says Thorneley, "I might start...
Their mothers suffer even greater mistreatment. Like chickens in battery cages, sows are confined in individual metal crates so restrictive that they can’t turn around or even move side to side more than a few inches. They withstand cycles of impregnation, gestation, and giving birth. Intense frustration results in debilitating stress-induced behaviors such as biting on cage bars and obsessive sucking on their water bottles...