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...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 week 16, for example, can reduce the recurrence of premature births by one-third...
...without a homegrown star to inspire the masses, basketball officials fear that the sport won't gain traction. "[Cricket legend] Sachin Tendulkar is a household name, whereas hardly anyone out there knows me," complains 6-ft. 5-in. Jaishankar Menon, a former standout on the Indian national team. Another foot would surely help him. "What we need now is a Yao Ming," says Sharma, the Indian roundball raja. "Once Yao played in the NBA, the color of China changed. It became a basketball nation. If we have an Indian playing in the NBA, the color of this country will change...
...model for John le Carré's shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"--the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who retired in 1974 after the aide's allegiance was revealed...
...model for John le Carré's shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"-the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner circle of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who retired in 1974 after the aide's allegiance was revealed...
Harvard can only gain a share of the Ivy title now if the Crimson beats Yale at the Game and Dartmouth upsets Princeton next weekend...