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...Twain's parody) and skin-deep attempts to bring science to the masses. Gould's essays were something else: witty, respectful of readers' intelligence, always finding a principle in a grain of sand and a law in a wildflower. That they were also a velvet glove for Gould's iron convictions drove many scientists crazy, but we all admired his explanatory gifts. My favorite essay was about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. "DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity," Gould wrote, "the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death...
...debate over how long to breast-feed a child has probably been going on as long as children have been breast-fed. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies nurse for six months and, if possible, for 12 or more. (Iron-fortified infant formula can be substituted, if necessary, but no cow's milk for a full year.) Twelve months is a long time, however, especially for working mothers. I asked June Reinisch, former director of the Kinsey Institute and one of the authors of the J.A.M.A. study, what she advises. "More is better...
...notorious practice. Abu Harith fended them off. That night Uday's thugs grabbed him at his house and sped him to Uday's farm, where he says he was tied to a palm tree for two days and repeatedly beaten. Uday branded him with a hot iron on his back and shoulder. Then one of the guards injected Abu Harith's arm with something that hurt; he still has a lump there. He was driven back to Baghdad and dumped near his home. When he fled to the Kurdish-controlled north, his suspicions were confirmed: he had been given thallium...
INDIA Gujarat Battles The government said it would send 2,000 troops to help combat ongoing communal violence in the western state of Gujarat. State officials initially asked for extra police from Punjab after local forces failed to quell street battles between Hindu and Muslim groups armed with pistols, iron bars and homemade explosives. Human-rights groups say hundreds died in the latest clashes in the state capital, Ahmadabad, and more than 2,000 in Gujarat since February...
...Martha Moxley's body flashed on a screen and the dot of a laser pointer moved across it as Connecticut chief medical examiner Wayne Carver directed the jury's attention to deep wounds in the girl's head. They were, Carver said, produced by the Toney Penna six-iron that police say came from a set of clubs owned by the defendant's mother. Carver said the great force of the blows pierced the girl's skull and brain and that one blow was so sharp and piercing, virtually a stab, that it dragged a lock of her hair through...