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...Less pain for Mom, more problems for baby. Newborns of mothers who had EPIDURALS for labor pains are more likely to undergo blood tests and be given prophylactic antibiotics. Why? Epidurals can raise a mother's temperature. Since fever in Mom can be a sign of infection in the baby, doctors must do a workup...
Speculation reached a fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
March and April mean midterms, papers and job applications. Whither our biological alarm clocks? Where, praytell, is our spring fever, our raging hormones? Ah, you reply, this is Harvard and we forego such pleasures. After all, everyone knows there's no sex here. But to say that Harvard students are sexually repressed is platitudinous. For many years, Harvard's tireless cadre of dilettantish social critics and pseudo-intellectual newspaper columnists have decried the lack of "healthy" sexual activity at the College. Even the venerable New York Times jumped on the bandwagon. In a recent article on megatrends in college dating...
...their fearsomeness volcanic mountains are relatively simple geologic structures--little more than lesions in the earthly dermis that suggest a fever condition far below. Volcanologically active areas generally lie atop clashing tectonic plates, where fractures five or six miles belowground create chambers into which magma rises and pools. The faster the plates collide, the more volcanic chambers are formed, which is why so many eruptions take place in the geologically active area of the Pacific known as the Ring of Fire...
...Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby. Actually, this book should be read by anyone with a pulse, not just soccer fans. Hornby chronicles the relationship between sport and life through the lens of his own obsessive relationship with Arsenal Football Club; off-beat, thoughtful and often gutbustingly funny, it makes for an easy, quick read that might change the way you look at sport...