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Ever since the wily serpent urged Eve to take that fateful bite out of the apple, snakes have been on just about everybody's enemies list. In the Old West, calling someone a "rattlesnake" or "snake in the grass" could get you shot. Even newborn monkeys recoil instantly when shown the image of a snake. Is there anyone who has something good to say about the creatures...
Still testing out the waters with their newborn acting troupe, the Fantastick Theatre Company provided good entertainment considering their paltry resources. They have great potential for improvement and success in their November production of another Sondheim musical, Merrily We Roll Along...
Those findings, combined with advances that have greatly reduced the risks from anesthesia during the past 10 to 15 years, have brought about some substantial changes. "Now no newborn is too sick to get pain medication," Berde says. In general, there seems to be more effort to reduce kids' pain from all medical procedures, including bone-marrow biopsies, spinal taps and repeated blood drawings. Says Berde: "I think most major children's hospitals are changing. There is less willingness than there used to be to hold kids down and brutalize them...
Doctors in the U.S. have known since 1994 that the drug AZT can substantially reduce the chance of transmission of the AIDS virus from an infected woman to her newborn child. Unfortunately, administering AZT to pregnant women is complicated and quite expensive--about $1,000 per mother. That's far beyond the means of most developing countries, where 1,000 newborns are infected each...
...blame the press for the breakup of his sister's marriage and to deem the British media, in particular, "the biggest cancer in society today." Well, perhaps not the biggest. That same year he posed happily for a lengthy cover story in Britain's Hello! magazine with his newborn...