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...that women who consume 0.8 mg of folic acid, a B vitamin, for at least a month before they conceive have a dramatically lower risk of bearing a child with a neural-tube defect. Although the link between folic acid and neural-tube defects has been made before, this landmark study of 4,156 women is the first to show that the malformation can be prevented -- even in women who have no previous history of bearing children with neural- tube defects...
...mules, if you will, of genetic research; they breed fast, and their simple chromosomes are ideal for the study of heredity. Now a group of U.S. biologists has found a way to freeze living fly embryos. Not only does that guarantee a stable fly supply, but it is a landmark achievement in another sense: fruit flies are the most complex organisms ever to be lab frozen and revived. The technique could lead, albeit far down the road, to the freezing of mammals -- even humans, maybe...
...SAID EVERYTHING LIKE SHE meant it, and she sang it as she lived it. "I'm telling you, me and my old voice, it just go up a little bit and come down a little bit," Billie Holiday says during a rehearsal interlude on this landmark set. "It's not legit. I do not got a legitimate voice." True enough. But Billie Holiday changed every notion of legit -- twisted it right around into such a newfangled shape that her silken, serpentine style became the touchstone for all jazz singing. She was, by herself, the new tradition. Others followed, and some...
...refusal to reconsider the repeal of the Guam law, the majority opinion cited the argument of "undue burden" to attack the legality of preventing women from having abortions. The justices lifted this argument from last summer's Casey v. Planned Parenthood ruling that fundamentally upheld 1973's landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...