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...more than $500 million in pork-barrel projects for Alaska in 2000, including funding for spruce trees, salmon, the study of volcanoes and reducing fetal alcohol syndrome...
...their personalities and backgrounds are a study in contrasts. Smith, an amateur actor and the divorced father of four, has played supporting roles in Pittsburgh productions of such dramas as A Doll's House and Death of a Salesman. He is also a writer who saw his play, The Fetal Pig, a comedy about a mid-life crisis, staged in Philadelphia in 1987. ''I like to put on football games and write,'' says Smith, who holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and is fond of quoting Chaucer in Middle English. ''I find it a good release.'' Malone...
...they looked at me like I was crazy. I had just delivered them but I didn't remember." Sam struck out on her own soon after and opened Elite, and now charges patients $15,000 on top of insurance for VIP prenatal care that includes add-ons like a fetal ultrasound photo at every visit, private birthing classes, one massage per trimester, optional home doctor visits, her private home and cell phone numbers and e-mail address, and the guarantee that she will be at the hospital for her patients' full active labor and delivery. In order to fulfill that...
...Pamela Paul is the author of Parenting Inc.: How We are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Sleeping Coaches, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers - and What It Means for Our Children
...mother's emotional stress impacts her fetus's growth is still mostly a mystery. It's possible that increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol interfere directly with fetal development. Or it may be that the mother's stress response triggers a cascade of other chemical changes - in her immune system, in blood levels of sex hormones, or perhaps in cell-signaling proteins called cytokines - that may indirectly affect early fetal development. Whatever the exact mechanism, its effects lend credence to the theory that starting early in pregnancy, "mothers transmit information to their fetus about what condition they're likely...