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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back door. Watching the Administration's doomed attempt to push its argument through the courts was like witnessing a man spending a week falling down a flight of stairs. Starr subpoenaed the agents on Tuesday, just a week after a three-judge federal appeals panel upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected the protective-privilege claim. By early Thursday morning, Cockell and six officers were at the courthouse in Washington, ready to walk the plank into Starr's grand-jury room. So great was the attention on them that Tripp was able to enter the court in relative peace...
...Galotti, the "blockbuster publisher of Vogue" (Brown's words) and before that Brown's colleague as publisher of Vanity Fair, site of her previous editorship (both magazines are part of the Conde Nast group, owned by S.I. Newhouse Jr., who also owns the New Yorker). Though he cuts a lower media profile than his colleagues, Galotti is known to cognoscenti as the model for "Mr. Big" in the New York Observer's now discontinued "Sex and the City" column...
...with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full 99% of the women who walked said they'd like to do it again for their next delivery. "Walking gave the women more of a sense of control," Bloom says. "Since it didn't hurt either the baby or the mom, it seems...
...stages of labor, don't let anyone talk you out of it. You may find nurse midwives more sympathetic to your need to ambulate than obstetricians. (A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control found that, all other things being equal, the risk of infant death was 19% lower for full-term deliveries attended by certified nurse midwives than for those attended by physicians--perhaps because midwives are slower to turn to higher-risk procedures like C-sections and forceps deliveries.) And if you want to keep tabs on what else is and isn't known about birthing babies...
Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...