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...chance came Wednesday night, at her friend Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin's Miami Beach home. Police cars lined streets; patrol boats cruised on the canal behind the house. Demonstrators shouted in Spanish that Reno was a witch. For 2 1/2 hours she talked with Elian, Lazaro, Marisleysis and their Miami handlers, as Elian moved from lap to lap. At one point during the negotiations, the boy even began playing with one of Reno's security people. "You know, we could solve this real quick," the agent reportedly said. "I could walk out of here with him right...
...about their abs and their arid social lives. ("I'm not really hungry," one of them says, "but I'd like to have reservations someplace.") Some of the wit may sound insidey--Ed Gein, the real-life inspiration for Norman Bates, is ID'd as the "maitre d' at Canal Bar"--but it makes a point. To Patrick, serial killers and cafe staffers are interchangeable celebrities...
...labor and delivery, when you're going through it for the first time, you don't really know what to expect. So, if an obstetrician offers to shorten the time it takes for your baby to be born by making a little incision in the tissue below the birth canal, chances are you'll be tempted to gasp out a yes! The procedure, called an episiotomy, may bring you immediate relief, but it often leads to a longer recovery, more pain and other postdelivery complications. Most of the time, it doesn't even benefit the baby. In fact, under normal...
...common justification for an episiotomy is to avoid tears in the perineum, the tissue just below the opening of the birth canal. "But people generally underestimate how well the perineum stretches," Feldman says. All it takes is a little time and holding off on pushing to give the perineum a chance to adjust. Also perineal massage during the final six weeks of pregnancy reduces the risk of tears...
...grander dream--of contacting extraintelligent E.T.s like those canal-building Martians imagined by the early 20th century astronomer Percival Lowell--lives on in the radio and optical searches underwritten by private outfits like Drake's SETI Institute and the Planetary Society. And even scientists dubious of success don't want to be spoilsports. They agree on the importance of continuing the quest, not just for microbes on Mars or Europa but also for those faint signals from some remote world--if only to underscore the preciousness of life and the importance of protecting perhaps its lone example. Admits Drake: "Even...