Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week from hell. The day before, she made her national television debut, explaining through streaming mascara that she has no idea how one of a parent's worst nightmares had come true for her. Somehow her daughter is not her daughter, at least biologically. Somehow the girl she gave birth to on June 29, 1995, apparently was swapped with a girl born a few hours later to a 16-year-old cheerleader named Whitney Rogers. Somehow nothing makes sense anymore...
Expect the results of DNA tests to determine whether Rebecca Chittum, one of the two "switched at birth" babies, is truly the biological daughter of Paula Johnson or of Tamara Whitney Rogers, the woman who raised her and recently died in a car crash...
Whatever the reason, the cloned mice were perfectly normal in all respects. They could mate and give birth, and their DNA was so robust that they themselves could be cloned--and their clones cloned. So far, Wakayama and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii have produced three generations of identical mice...
Alisa and Christopher Everett faced a $14,000-plus bill following the birth last August of their son Alston. The pregnancy, complicated by Alisa's diabetes, had required numerous medical tests. And while Everett, 37, a $26,000-a-year mechanic in a local woolen mill, has health insurance, he was still responsible for almost $3,000 in unreimbursed expenses. The hospital's solution: to pay half the bill, Everett agreed to sand, repaint and refurbish hospital lawn chairs; Alisa is assembling a hospital photo album of doctors, staff and equipment to explain medical care to children who become patients...
...debate about whether health insurers will pay for Viagra, it's easy to forget that many women aren't even covered for the Pill. Now Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine is pushing a bill that would require large plans that cover drugs to pay for all prescription forms of birth control. About half of all plans, including Kaiser Permanente and Prudential, now cover some form of protection, from the Pill to diaphragms and IUDs...