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Americans -- go figure. They can't make a better car or car stereo. They can't stanch their national debt. They can't impose a new world order. But they can fix up a foreign-movie drama like doctors slapping an anemic newborn into shape until it is a bionic baby. It looks so smart, so strong, so very . . . Hollywood...
...passageways lead to another harsh stone room with gray video monitors on which scenes of horror are narrated by offstage voices. German soldiers surround a hospital and throw newborn babies out of the upper windows. Men and women stripped of even artificial limbs go to the gas chamber while an avuncular SS colonel insists they will not be harmed. At the exit, the backlighted words of Simon Wiesenthal offer the museum's justification for re- creating such pain: ONLY KNOW THAT HOPE LIVES WHEN PEOPLE REMEMBER...
Approved in the Senate by a largely bipartisan vote of 71 to 27 and in the House 247 to 152, the bill will require companies with at least 50 employees to offer 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to care for an ill family member, a newborn or an adopted child. Employers must maintain health-insurance coverage for absent workers and allow them to take the same job or an equivalent on their return...
...chance of passing the infection on to their unborn children. But conventional tests, which detect the presence of antibodies to the virus, cannot determine which babies are infected and thus need immediate treatment. The ambiguity occurs because the mother's own antibodies cross the placenta, causing the newborn to test positive even if it is not infected...
Ruprecht and her colleagues found that nearly all the monkeys tested positive for SIV-positive at birth. The results, Ruprecht said indicated that human babies whose mothers are HIV poaith's exposed to the virus late in the pregnancy or during actual delivery when the newborn comes in contact with skin or blood expose the fetus must come in contact with the amniotic find...