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...jammed into tents just meters from the scene of the blaze. Flora Naig and her five-month-old daughter are living with 40 relatives and former neighbors in a five-meter?by?five-meter tent, and she hopes to sell some old clothes to buy milk for her infant. Naig has survived two previous fires in the past two years, both of which destroyed her residence. "We keep on being tossed around," she says, "from one corner to another...
Previous studies have linked smoking while pregnant with a number of other adverse effects, including low birth weight, higher incidence of miscarriage and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome...
...Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including Premier Oil, the French hotel chain Accor and, last month, British American Tobacco. Total and Unocal argue that their presence has a positive effect. Infant mortality in the pipeline vicinity is one-fourth the national average, they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself is facing lawsuits in France and Belgium over its role in the project. It says everyone employed on the project was a paid, voluntary adult...
...Shame on him! Why can't I dress up for one evening a year and have fun pretending to be something I'm not? For the other 364 days (and on Halloween day too), I'm a responsible, child-nurturing, house-cleaning, healthy-meal-cooking mother--and no infant, thank you! KAREN LEE Los Gatos, Calif...
...more than the easy comedy of young Americans in old Asia. She seeks the unseen forces that bind together families?both biological and artificial?no matter how far apart their individual members roam. At the orphanage where Mandy works with AIDS-afflicted children, the suddenly tender daughter hands an infant to her squeamish, confused mother, Alice, who stares back at the grown child now drifting unfathomably far from her. Those are the sudden moments of near understanding that Freudenberger captures throughout this satisfying and promising exploration of what binds us when we're untied?and footloose?in bewildering foreign lands...