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...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] OLD ADVICE NEW ADVICE Prenatal care starts right after the stick turns blue. Then it's vitamins, diet, the whole shebang Awaiting Conception Get yourself in shape before sperm meets egg, with diet, exercise, genetic tests and dental care Permanents and hair-straightening should be avoided. Hair-coloring may be affected by hormones Beauty Treatments Best to put off such enhancements as tattoos, belly piercings and Botox until after the baby is born Relax. Probably those doughnuts you ate during your first trimester. Or maybe you have a small frame...
Gibbs spelled out so many of the issues that complicate the abortion and stem-cell debate. The bottom line is that life is a continuum. Once it has begun, once the DNA "spells" a human and the fertilized egg starts dividing, the only difference between it and the 10-month-old "product of conception" is time and nurture, not substance. I do not consider myself religious, but I do have compassion for life and see it as precious. I don't understand how otherwise compassionate people can think it's O.K. to end a life. Abortion and embryonic-stem-cell...
...Horton is a naturally generous soul; in an earlier Seuss story, Horton Hatches the Egg, he had stolidly perched on an irresponsible bird's egg, and stayed at the job for nearly a year, because he had promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot...
...Hans Conried, the actor who had incarnated that pedagogue-demagogue, that piano-teacher torturer, Dr. Terwilliker in Geisel's fantastical live-action film The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. And you shouldn't miss the elephant's first appearance in movies, in the Warners cartoon Horton Hatches the Egg directed by Bob Clampett. This wonderfully vigorous adaptation can be found on YouTube. (But don't let the kids peek at the next offering on the YouTube list: the non-Seuss, very Spitzer-sounding Horton Hires...
...Apocalypse Now) - that should probably be deleted from the anything-for-a-joke book. The movie also briefly and unnecessarily invokes the voices of Henry Kissinger and JFK. But ransacking pop culture is what cartoons do, and not just the gag-strewn Shrek movies. Clampett's Horton Hatches the Egg has a Katharine Hepburn bird, a Peter Lorre fish (that commits suicide!) and the Horace Heidt novelty hit "The Hut Sut Song." Even the more restrained Jones ended his Horton with a twist on a twist of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." The cast sings, "Be kind...