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...Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama?populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne?of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...
...many expectant parents, nine months is just too long. Not willing to wait for the birth of their child and the accompanying flash photos, American and British parents-to-be are shelling out $200 and more to ultrasound centers with cutesy names like Prenatal Peek and Babyview for high-res, golden-hued ultrasound images of fetuses in their amniotic homes. It's not hard to see the appeal. The latest advances in ultrasound technology - from grainy 2-D to glorious 4-D with accompanying DVD - produce images that are impressive, showing facial features, hair, fingers, toes and even a fetus...
Margaret Dell is 96, but you'd need to check the birth date on her driver's license to believe it. Sporting a baseball cap with a Harley-Davidson logo on it, she is the designated driver for her seventysomething friends who no longer feel comfortable behind the wheel. Last winter a snowfall threatened to keep her from her appointed automotive rounds. She took a shovel and cleared a path to her car. Driving keeps Dell young. That and knitting. She constantly knits. She makes baby booties and caps and blankets for friends and family whenever a baby arrives...
...what types of stress and trauma you experience. How much depends on each factor, though, was unknown until Swedish scientists tackled the problem in 1998. They did it by looking at the only set of people who share genes but not lifestyle: identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart. If genes were most important, you would expect the twins to die at about the same age. In fact, they don't, and the average difference convinced the scientists that only about 20% to 30% of how long we live is genetically determined. The dominant factor is lifestyle...
DIED. SUNE BERGSTROM, 88, Nobel laureate who in the 1950s helped discover the structure and function of prostaglandins, a family of hormones that play a vital role in a host of bodily functions; in Stockholm. Drugs derived from the chemicals are widely used in birth control, abortion, pain relief and the prevention of blood clots...