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...Although donating breast milk is becoming more mainstream - Nadya Suleman's octuplets have been consuming donated milk - cross-nursing still conjures up the specter of wet-nursing, with all its class issues and antiquated notions about women's bodies yoked in service to others. The official word on cross-nursing is still nix. It seems that no institution, even those that support milk-sharing, is willing to endorse women who offer their milk without a breast pump serving as an intermediary. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which screens and distributes donated milk to hospitals across...
...from reporters from the four big networks, CNN, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Washington Post and NPR. There were big-city newspapers he overlooked (plus, ahem, newsmagazines), but giving the Huffington Post a question seemed to be more gestural than suggestive of an unwillingness to work with the mainstream media. As if to prove this, the next day Obama came to the press cabin of Air Force One and started joking with journalists from AP, NPR, Bloomberg and Reuters about how they got questions, opining that they must have been nice to press secretary Robert Gibbs...
...Though Iran's bleak economic climate, surging inflation and international isolation are ripe grounds for an upset victory for Khatami, his legacy as an innovative reformist who introduced women into the political mainstream and welcomed dialogue with the West has already been marred once by a failure to successfully follow through on reforms in the face of opposition by hard-line critics. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...Duncan Kennedy’s description of the situation in Gaza is, as far as I know, entirely accurate, really even prosaic. That it may seem controversial is largely because of the extraordinarily one-sided coverage that the mainstream media in the United States provide for our consumption on most aspects of Middle Eastern politics. All of us have an obligation to inform ourselves about this painful and dangerous situation as fully as possible...
...that can be traced back to the late 1800s in England, when a sect called the Peculiar People ended up on trial for allowing generations of children to die as a result of their decision to reject doctors and medicine. Today, many religious groups routinely reject some or all mainstream health care on theological grounds, including Christian Scientists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish and Scientologists. "Fundamentalists tell us their lives are in the hands of God and we, as physicians, are not God," says Dr. Lorry Frankel, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and author of Ethical Dilemmas...