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...fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that pregnant women limit their seafood intake to two servings per week.FDA guidelines say that some types of fish, such as shark, swordfish, and king mackerel, contain high levels of mercury, which has been shown to cause nervous system defects and occasional death in infants. “For most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern,” states a March 2004 FDA report. “Yet, some fish and shellfish contain higher levels of mercury that...
...their competition. It is a particularly uncomfortable situation for a politician famous for his ability to rally religious conservatives. Those supporters largely dismiss the revelations as a left-wing smear, but Rusty Paul, Reed's predecessor as Georgia G.O.P. chairman, acknowledges "a lot of very nervous people around waiting for other shoes to drop." Allies of his chief rival in the primary have circulated a memo among local Republicans warning that having Reed on the ticket could jeopardize incumbent Governor Sonny Perdue and the G.O.P.'s legislative majorities...
...along the way didn't actually occur and suggest Mao and his communist army survived the 6,000-mile ordeal only because his political rival, Chiang Kai-shek, decided to let them move unopposed. The 1949 declaration of the People's Republic? A bust, the authors argue, as a nervous Mao frequently resorted to awkward throat clearing and offered no ideas for benefiting China's people. His love for the peasants? Phony. "There is no sign that Mao derived from his peasant roots any social concerns, much less that he was motivated by a sense of injustice...
Lincoln’s contemporaries, Shenk says, saw melancholy as a temperamental style, as part of someone’s character. Those afflicted by melancholy might have been more prone to nervous states or debilitating disease. But melancholy was part of a spectrum...
...interviews. At one point in speaking to The Harvard Crimson, he loses his train of thought and pauses silently just long enough to make everyone in the room uncomfortable. He may just be the only world-famous filmmaker in existence who will turn into a nervous wreck in the presence of college journalists. All of this, of course, makes him devastatingly charming, in a shy kid-brother sort of way. That same sentiment can be applied to his work, in which the some of the most adorable characters ever put on screen are made from children’s modeling...