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...giant monument's birth being greeted with this distinctly un-Buddhist-like anti-p.r. campaign? Local reporters, who obtained access to internal provincial documents, say the statue was built with the approval of Li Changchun, who was Henan's Communist Party secretary in the 1990s before taking up his present post in 2003 as the Party's national propaganda chief. Li presided over Henan precisely when the local government was turning a blind eye to peasants contracting HIV by selling their blood, which was collected with tainted equipment. When the scandal was exposed four years ago, Li may have...
What do dental X rays have to do with pregnancy? Scientists don't really know, but the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports the surprising finding that a woman's risk of having a low-birth-weight baby at full term more than triples if she has her teeth X-rayed while pregnant. This is not a good reason to avoid the dentist, however. Other studies have shown that women with periodontal disease have a three to five times greater risk of preterm childbirth than those with healthy teeth and gums...
...prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the wall of the uterus, is an even more promising way of enabling women to prevent pregnancy before it has technically begun. Late-term abortions are generally done only in cases when the baby would not have been viable at birth because of severe birth defects, or because the life of the mother is in danger. A ban on such abortions, as was recently passed into law, fails to recognize the specific and critical instances when these procedures are recommended...
...Kaguya's namesake is a 14-month-old mouse whose conception is every bit as fantastic: she was created by scientists using two eggs and no sperm. As reported in the journal Nature last week, that makes Kaguya the first mouse born by parthenogenesis (from the Greek for virgin birth), a reproductive method seen in insects and reptiles but never before in mammals...
...Germany, found that 20% of men would like to take parental leave. But state figures show that only 2% of German fathers actually do so. Dortmund-based management assistant Ansgar von der Osten, 38, declined to take his unpaid parental leave entitlement of up to three years after the birth of each of his two children because his wife was studying. He also declined to take advantage of the part-time working hours to which he was legally entitled. The potential disadvantages were too daunting. "A lot still needs to change in people's consciousness - especially that of employers - before...