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Taking a cue from earlier interventions that singled out one factor or another and failed to make a dent in the problem, the March of Dimes is trying what medical director Dr. Nancy Green calls a "kitchen-sink approach." Much of its focus is on the nuts and bolts of a healthy pregnancy: screening for bacterial infections, watching for signs of domestic violence, discouraging alcohol consumption, encouraging smoking cessation (1 in 4 pregnant women in Kentucky smokes), monitoring weight gain and nutritional intake and, when necessary, giving drugs to prevent preterm labor. Weekly injections of a progesterone-based drug after...
Granted, Dawson has been a four-year starter. But that factor is a major part of his accomplishment, not a critique of his statistical output. Running back is one of the most brutal positions in sports, forcing men into retirement in the midst of their primes simply because they don’t want to subject themselves to the pounding anymore. At 5’9 Dawson doesn’t have great size, yet has proved incredibly durable, not missing a start due to injury in his collegiate career. These days, he practically limps back to the huddle, hobbles...
...means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware-it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count...
...Keller was pleased with the results of Common Casting, and stresses that experience wasn’t a factor in the selection process...
...into the election with the wind, not a wall, at their back. And it was not only increasing opposition to the Iraq war, which voters had all along told pollsters was their biggest concern and which ranked as an important issue to two-thirds of voters. An even greater factor may have been the backwash from a series of GOP scandals, with three-fourths of voters citing corruption as an important factor in deciding their votes. Democrats also appeared to be winning back the constituencies that had so contributed to Republican victories over the past few cycles: suburban women, independents...