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...Before I am accused of being morbid, let me note that the miracle of birth also responds to financial incentives. The full tax advantages of childbirth expire at midnight on January 1 every year. And according to many years of data on U.S. births, the greater the tax benefits, the greater the difference in birth rates between late December and early January...
...terrible headaches. Some thought the doctor's behavior was odd. While on the vaccine, one patient, Dawanna Robertson, discovered she was pregnant; she panicked when she recalled the warning on the consent form she had signed: "The potential effects of these drugs on the growing fetus...may include serious birth defects." Yet when she voiced her fears, Robertson says, McGee assured her that the vaccine couldn't pass through the placenta. She received another injection that...
Person of the Week BIRTH OF A NATION It took years of struggle in the jungle and many more as a political prisoner in Indonesia, but East Timor's favorite son finally reached the presidency after an overwhelming victory at the polls. Now Xanana Gusmão faces his most difficult task: building a country from scratch...
...urine samples from every Muslim in the audience STEVE IRWIN "Crocodile Guy" made $8.7 million last year. Too bad insurance premiums for sticking your head in a crocodile's jaw are three times that ELIZABETH HURLEY Ex-covergirl may get millions for the story of her son Damian's birth. Meanwhile, Hugh Grant is trying desperately to impregnate himself Losers DAVID BECKHAM England's top footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting injured before Summer Slam ED MCMAHON Carson sidekick's house infected with toxic mold. McMahon said he would...
...used to create stem cells—is ethically acceptable. The possibilities for stem cells derived from therapeutic cloning are immense. Great gains might be made in treating multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and various other crippling diseases. And because it will never result in the birth of a cloned embryo, therapeutic cloning is free from many of the ethical dilemmas confronting reproductive cloning...