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...world standards, the proposed legislation is mild. It would give women equal rights to inherit property and divorce and, in certain circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight...
Advances in technology cause many to hold out in hopes of getting more for their money. Audiologists caution against waiting too long, however. "It's much easier to get used to a hearing aid when the loss is mild and you're younger," says Susan Rezen, an audiology professor at Worcester State College in Massachusetts and co-author of Coping with Hearing Loss. "If you delay too long, you're taking the chance that your brain may get used to not processing speech...
...possible, but extremely unlikely. And in the one documented case of human foot-and-mouth disease (diagnosed in 1966, in Britain), the symptoms were very mild and dissipated quickly...
...dangerous to human beings? No. Britain has recorded only one case, in 1966, of foot-and-mouth disease in a human. That occurrence was mild, transient and showed symptoms similar to those of flu, plus blisters on the hands. Humans cannot contract the disease through consumption of infected meat or from other people...
...suffered the first of four heart attacks at age 37 and experienced his most recent in November, when a mild attack briefly sidelined Cheney during the dispute following the presidential election...