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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousands of other women believe the "something else" is silicone implants. Last week a class action against Dow Chemical, a parent company of Dow Corning, moved forward when a Louisiana jury found that Dow knowingly deceived the women by hiding negative information about silicone. The trial's second phase, which is to begin this month, will take up the most crucial question of all: Can silicone implants be scientifically proved in a court of law to be the cause of these ailments? At the same time, the case will test a more philosophical issue: How compatible in court...
...toughest parts of parenting is the seemingly endless series of decisions you have to make. Breast-feeding or formula? Cloth or disposable? Day care or the mommy track? It is not as though there is an absolute right answer to any of these questions--yet parents often feel the wrong choice could be disastrous. That is especially true when it comes to spanking. Every parent has been in a situation where a whack on the rear seems like the only recourse to little Janie's or Johnny's tantrum. But at least since the 1960s, the conventional wisdom propounded...
...ORLEANS: In what could set the stage for one of the largest class-action payouts in U.S. history, a jury yesterday ruled Dow Chemical withheld information about the potential dangers of the implants. Dow Chemical, the parent company of the implant producer Dow Corning, had claimed it had no involvement in the product's testing. The verdict in the first breast implants class-action lawsuit to go to trial opens the door for a complex legal process in which 1,800 women are seeking money for immune system related aches and pains...
...public-policy debate has its own roster of expert witnesses and armory of exhibits. Divorce opponents including Gallagher and Whitehead point to the mountain of evidence about the corrosive effects on children. But that research, say their critics, is garbage. "You cannot compare the children of two-parent homes with children of divorce," argues Pollitt. "You have to compare the children of divorce with the children of people in marriages that are dreadful but continuing." She dismisses the list of remedies offered by the antidivorce crowd and is skeptical of mandatory counseling. Divorced and quick to admit it, Pollitt says...
When his mother died, Seng was allowed to leave his mobile work unit and go back to his village. He asked neighbors to bury her beside his father and gave them a shirt in payment. Then he knelt, took a handful of dirt from each parent's grave and prayed that their spirits would look after him. Returning to his work unit, he disobeyed orders, went off in search of food and came across a mass grave of 30 bodies. To punish him, soldiers tied him to a bamboo pole and left him to starve for days. Eventually he escaped...