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...viewers have met the real-life policewomen who filed a sexual-harassment suit against the Long Beach, California, police department (CBS's With Hostile Intent); a real-life near victim of convicted murderer Blanche Taylor Moore (NBC's Black Widow Murders); and the real-life South Dakota woman who bore her daughter's baby (CBS's Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story...
...medication during pregnancy. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association provides a mixed answer. Researchers followed women who became pregnant while receiving therapy -- either with Prozac, a relatively new and extremely popular drug, or tricyclic antidepressants, an older class of medication. Women in both groups bore the same small risk of having children with serious birth defects -- which was no higher than it is for women in the general population. But both groups of women on antidepressant medication showed abnormally high rates of miscarriage. More study is needed to determine whether the medication or the depression...
...some 40 miles away. The archaeologists discovered fire pits surrounded by burned wood chips, wooden lances with hardened tips, wooden basins containing seeds, grindstones -- and a human footprint. The foundation of a wishbone-shaped structure held the remains of more than 20 types of medicinal plants, some of which bore marks that may be the imprints of human molars. Most intriguing of all, the scientists unearthed wooden foundations and crude timbers that Dillehay believes supported an oval, tentlike dwelling similar to late Pleistocene shelters found on the Siberian plains. Says he: "We know these people exploited a wide variety...
...found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each successive radiocarbon test, though, bore out her initial findings. She became a convert -- and an untiring champion -- of the pre-Clovis theory...
...EUROPEan Community firms will be barred from bidding on an unspecified number of U.S. contracts sounded ominous. Made in retaliation for the E.C.'s refusal to open its $13 billion telephone- switching-equipment market to foreign bidders, it seemed just the sort of move that might presage a full-bore trade...