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Sitting on my bookshelf are well-thumbed copies of Heidi Murkoff's What to Expect When You're Expecting and What to Expect the First Year, handed down from one neurotic mother to another. To complete the anxiety-inducing trilogy, the bestselling author's latest oeuvre, What to Expect Before You're Expecting, is hitting stores this month. The basic premise of the 275-page book, which is touted as "the complete preconception plan," is that mothers-to-be should devote at least three months to getting ready to get pregnant. So welcome to a trimester's worth...
...risk, it will be tough to hold any one corporation responsible. But Steven Trunnell wants to fight. He says that, contrary to early media reports, his wife Judy had no underlying medical complications and was healthy before she contracted H1N1. "She accomplished so many goals, and she was the mother to a 4-year-old," he says. "It was a gross injustice." Viruses, however, have no sense of justice - and no court in the world will be able to change that...
...parents, however, had always stressed academics and leadership, she said. Both Harvard Law School graduates, her mother is a practicing lawyer in St. Louis who also does public interest work, and her father is a CEO at a company he started...
...Likewise, Dara, who is represented by Elite Model Management in New York City, balances a blossoming modeling career with the demands of school. According to her mother, Poornima Dara, good grades were a prerequisite for her daughter to model in high school...
When Rodrigo Rosenberg turned up dead on Mother's Day in an upscale neighborhood in Guatemala City, his murder was seen as little more than another execution-style shooting in one of Latin America's most dangerous countries. Now, after a video emerged in which Rosenberg accused Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom of orchestrating the murder, the killing has sparked civic unrest that threatens to topple the President of this fledgling democracy...