Word: milked
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...question, they loves 'em their Nazi exposés (The Reader), their civil rights martyrs (Milk), their Nixon (Frost/Nixon), who to the Academy voters is like Bush 43 rewritten by Shakespeare. All three films were finalists for Best Picture. And Doubt, set in a Catholic school in 1964, cadged slots for all four of the actors who didn't play kids or really old nuns. Note to the Academy: What have you nice folks got against really old nuns? (See Time's Top 10 Best Movie Performances...
...Drink your cuppa neat. Don't spoil it with milk or sugar...
Many nutrients vital to fetal development, including omega-3s, are delivered during the third trimester, and when premature babies miss this critical period in utero, doctors believe they may need to make up for it through either the breast milk or formula they are fed after birth. Earlier studies have shown that about 1% of a baby's total third-trimester fatty-acid intake comes from omega-3s, but by comparison, only about 0.2% to 0.35% of the total fatty acids in breast milk and infant formulas come from omega-3s. So, it makes sense that supplementing preemies' diets with...
...womb. A control group of 273 similar moms took six capsules of soy, a placebo. Overall, the two groups showed no differences in cognitive tests 18 months later, but when Makrides looked at the data by gender, she found that girls getting the omega-3 supplemented breast milk did slightly better than girls receiving regular milk. The smallest premature babies also showed more benefit from the omega-3s than heavier preemies...
...unshakable. Everyone has had a pal who is more trouble than he's worth; the kid who gets you into scrapes only to dematerialize just when the teacher catches you suspending a bucket of water over the classroom door; the roommate who loses keys, drinks the last of the milk and never washes the dishes. Blair, among Britain's most able and successful leaders, had the misfortune to befriend Bush and become embroiled in the U.S.'s international adventures. For this he has been named the recipient of the U.S.'s two top civilian medals. But those adventures contributed...