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...camps is growing, as volumes of credible testimony about the prisons in the North pile up. Among the most troubling claims to emerge from former detainees is infanticide: according to several former prisoners, women who have become pregnant while in China are not uncommonly required to give birth while still in detention and then forced to watch as their own babies are killed. Hawk's report contains eight eyewitness accounts-including one of a child suffocated with a wet towel in front of its mother's eyes-and separately, TIME interviewed two women, who did not want to be identified...
...abortion. He opposes it except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is at stake. But he has leavened that position with vehement support for contraception. He joined with Maine Republican Olympia Snowe to offer a bill ordering private health-insurance plans to cover birth control. He successfully filibustered for including such coverage in federal-employee health plans. Kate Michelman, former head of naral Pro-Choice America, says, "I'm honored to be his friend...
...please, we're british, is a charming idea - and an obsolete one. Britain now has the highest teen birth rate in Western Europe. Its TV and tabloids overflow with unclad women and randy tales. And if recent events are any guide, some of its better political magazines do, too. There certainly seems to be strong stuff in the water cooler at the offices of the Spectator, London's venerable weekly journal of conservative thought and culture...
Obesity, somewhat arbitrarily defined by a body mass index above 30, is a grave health hazard that continues to ravage the American population, despite widespread encouragement of healthier eating habits and moderate exercise. An increased risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, breathing problems, incontinence and birth defects are only the beginning of the extensive list of related health disturbances provided by the Department of Health and Human Services. While prevention and management strategies to combat obesity must remain a national health priority regardless of the exact number of obesity-caused deaths per year, a change in numbers translates...
...time and send a brand-new universe expanding in a direction undetectable and imperceptible to us. Since giant black holes lurk at the cores of many billions of galaxies and smaller holes are left behind by many billions of individual exploding stars, that could mean our cosmos has given birth to a staggering number of baby universes. And each of those could give birth in turn to billions more...