Word: pregnant
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...since 2001—seem especially puzzling; each dollar spent teaching students about birth control and sexual responsibility would seem to save several otherwise spent on law enforcement, penitentiaries, and welfare programs. For a host of reasons, our society is not an accomocating place for a teen who is pregnant. People who are still in many ways children themselves tend to have difficulty parenting children of their own. Every effort must be made to stem its increase, both on paper as well as for the benefit of Massachusetts’ disadvantaged communities. A comprehensive investment in education, contraception, and health...
...foundation began videotaping oral histories of survivors of Saddam’s brutal policies. On screen in one history, a mother holds up pictures of her pregnant daughter, her husband, her sons, all killed by the regime. She describes how an imprisoned friend’s sons were dragged away from her and never seen again...
...quasi-taboo word “shma-shmor-shmin.” In an effort to open up the abortion debate, at least on campus if not in the hills, Harvard Students for Choice hosted a panel last Friday entitled “Hollywood’s Pregnant Pause.” As part of Women’s Week, the event, organized by Harvard Students for Choice co-directors Catherine P. Humphreville ’10 and Sean P. Mascali ’08, featured speakers who screened clips from various movies such as “Juno?...
...actors in the film are universitystudents, with the exception ofChico’s love interest Roza, who is playedby Ana Maria Mainieri, a professionalmodel who had never acted before.Furtado is known for having manipulativeand calculating women in his movies,and Roza, a character who tells menshe is pregnant in order to extort moneyfrom them, is no exception.“As a director, I feel like there is alimit to how much I can truly influencean actor’s work,” Furtado said. “Maineiriwas able to really show the dual aspectsof her character, both...
...medicine," he says, "but people need to know there is a risk to every medicine. There may be a small percentage of people who are susceptible to injury." He and his wife would like to see thimerosal eliminated from flu vaccines, which continue to be given to children and pregnant women, a fact that, he thinks, could be one reason autism rates haven't declined. And he urges pediatricians to take a hard look at the schedule on which vaccines are given. "I think we need a grassroots movement among pediatricians to be more conservative, and not give so many...