Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male and female workers at five AT&T manufacturing plants around the U.S., a "clean room" is the low-humidity, highly sanitized workplace where noxious chemicals are used to make silicon wafers into microchips. Yet the clean rooms may be anything but. Last week AT&T disclosed that 15 pregnant employees who worked in those production areas had been warned about a sharply increased risk of miscarriage. When the company "strongly recommended" that they transfer to new jobs, at least until after they had given birth, all complied...
...women production workers suffered miscarriages over the past five years. Digital commissioned a study of the problem by Harris Pastides and Edward Calabrese of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's division of public health. The two investigated a group of 744 women and found a somber correlation. Pregnant women working where nitric and sulfuric acids were used to engrave circuitry patterns on silicon wafers experienced a miscarriage rate of 39%, vs. the national average of roughly 20%. Even though it has long allowed pregnant workers to transfer from such areas, Digital says, its study is inconclusive. "We have...
...Henry may survive instead and go to Israel, where he joins a settlement on the West Bank and tries to find, or lose, himself in Jewish history. Nathan may come out of the operating room a new man, get married and move to England with his lovely and reassuringly pregnant wife. Other variations surface. Perhaps Nathan alone dies, and Henry, going through his late brother's effects, comes upon the manuscript of a book that has chapters with the same titles, in the same order, as The Counterlife. Henry reads about his alleged affair with Wendy and becomes enraged...
When patients shop around, health-care providers want their names to come readily to mind. San Francisco's Mount Zion mails a quarterly newsletter called HealthWorks for Women to 30,000 local households. Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh has purchased a maternity-clothing store as another way of assisting pregnant women. United Hospital in St. Paul and Metropolitan Medical Center in Minneapolis helped create Nutritious Cuisine, a line of frozen dinners for the elderly. Other high-visibility programs include toll- free crisis lines and roving mammography vans...
...Today, for those students who grew up to be bicoastal investment bankers, a dietitian is likely to be the latest acquisition in personal advisers. Though still usually a woman, she has gone private in a big way, with clients who include not only fitness trendies but the overweight, the pregnant and sufferers from such food-sensitive diseases as diabetes and hypertension. Aiming for permanent eating-pattern changes, the dietitian or nutritionist often holds the client's hand during extended struggles to give up twelve cups of coffee a day or a five-bag Fritos habit. Says Manhattan TV Producer Roberta...