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...Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film," she seems eccentric but credible...
...epidemic proportions among women, and studies indicate that users of I.U.D.s seem from two to seven times more susceptible to such problems than women who do not employ them. This is a special concern for those who have never been pregnant. The warning signals include abdominal pain, fever, severe menstrual cramps, abnormal bleeding and vaginal discharges. Left unchecked, such infections can scar and block the fallopian tubes, where the union of egg and sperm takes place, and sometimes lead to a hysterectomy. The I.U.D., when it fails, has also been suspected of causing ectopic pregnancies, in which the fetus grows...
...insured people fully disclose their medical histories. In one California case, a Shernoff client with a back injury had been denied coverage because she failed to report that she had rhinitis and amenorrhea. Rhinitis is the medical term for a runny nose; amenorrhea means that she had an erratic menstrual cycle. Shernoff settled that case...
...Colorado's Richard Doty conducted more than 100,000 sniff tests to determine changes in the ability of volunteers to detect a chemical called furfural, a scent found in cloves and cinnamon. One clear result: women have the greatest ability to detect the odor midway in their menstrual cycle, presumably because of a correlation between estrogen in the body and sensitivity at the nose...
...Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, experimenters have also shown that certain mouth and vaginal odors change regularly during the menstrual cycle. That raises the possibility that odor tests may one day help develop a new contraceptive, an idea supported by the monkey studies of Monell Primatologist Gisela Epple. She found that the dominant male and dominant female in each social group spend much of their time smearing their scent around the cages. Surprisingly, subdominant females do not get pregnant when they mate with the top male. Epple suspects that a scent signal from the dominant female suppresses the fertility...