Word: pregnant
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Workers allege that the companies charged recruitment fees for employment opportunities and encouraged women not to date or marry, to use birth control pills and to have an abortion if pregnant so as not to lose their labor services, Beach said...
...opposite page--insisted on using pseudonyms. They have no way to earn money and live in fear that they have the disease themselves. Many do. Young orphan girls often turn to sex to survive and end up catching the virus. A South African study found that 9.5% of pregnant girls under age 15 were HIV-infected. And there is virtually no money to help. A recent UNAIDS study found that the disease is spreading three times as fast as the resources to combat it. And while the children on these pages have needs that can be met with money, most...
...week, 60 hours a week. They are allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying the word "union." They live in shacks. They are as young...
ARRESTED. RAE CARRUTH, 25, wide receiver and first-round draft choice for the NFL's Carolina Panthers; for the attempted murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams; in Charlotte, N.C. Adams' son was delivered prematurely after she was shot two weeks ago and left in critical condition...
JAVA MAMA, BEWARE Put down that mug! A huge study of 42,000 pregnant women concludes that consuming lots of caffeine--the amount in five or more cups of coffee a day--doubles the odds of a miscarriage. Unlike previous studies, researchers didn't rely on what women said they drank. Instead they measured a byproduct of caffeine found in blood, called paraxanthine. Going cold turkey may not be necessary though: one or two cups daily seems fine. --By Janice M. Horowitz...