Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clubs" with branches throughout the U.S. The A.M.A. notes that Simeons clients are placed on a diet of 500 calories a day for 42 to 60 days. They are also given injections of a substance called human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), which is extracted from the urine of pregnant women. The regimen's proponents claim that HCG helps patients stick to their diets and burn up fats better...
...study showing that habitual use of marijuana can lower the levels of male sex hormones in some men. Those findings, coupled with other research indicating that lower hormone levels in rats can prevent their male fetuses from developing normally, have been of growing concern to doctors; they wonder whether pregnant women who smoke marijuana might harm their unborn babies...
When Willwerth found him, his two main girls (one white, one black) were both pregnant, and the pressures on him to make choices and settle into a job were intense. His dreams of making a big score and getting off the street are like jail bars. They hold him in an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality. "I'd have a country home," says Jones, "but I would never go there, of course, because I don't like the country." He thinks of mugging "like chess." He remembers each victim precisely and prefers to work in the daytime because other...
...setting is a Moravian village, and the composer knew its inhabitants with detachment and compassion. He creates no heroes, but a world of people working, flirting, taking naps, worrying about saving face or avoiding the draft. The plot, however, concerns deadly primal emotions: love, jealousy and ambition. Jenufa is pregnant by števa, a wastrel who chases every girl in town. Jenufa still hopes to catch him, but her world is invisibly rimmed by two figures far more powerful than she and her faithless swain. One is a poor man named Laca, who loves her with a ferocity that drives...
...member of a New York City high school group advocating freedom of sex information. Civil liberties groups are also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical rights of those under 18 remain unclear, particularly when it comes to preventing or ending pregnancy...