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...like slings, you just might be a co-sleeper who shuns cribs in favor of plunking the baby in the bed. You're probably a fan of "attachment parenting", which encourages skin-to-skin contact (think breastfeeding and baby massage) and "wearing" your baby. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...while beggars shiver in the cold. Anticipatory lovers throb with desire in the shadowed alleyways of "Trumpet Shells." In "The Offering," a young boy who kills an old red rooster for no good reason is wracked by guilt and fevers. In "Scarecrow," a dissolute husband jounces his wife's pregnant belly with a spiteful kick. Elsewhere, villagers are stricken with tuberculosis, malaria or opium withdrawal. But at least they're alive, unlike the unnamed refugee from the North whose worm-riddled corpse is mentioned in passing in the second section of the book. (See pictures of Seoul: the world...
...March, Maine's legislature will begin debating a bill she submitted that would require manufacturers to put a warning label on every cell phone sold in the state declaring, "This device emits electromagnetic radiation, exposure to which may cause brain cancer." Her warning would continue, "Users, especially children and pregnant women, should keep this device away from the head and body." (See a report card on cell phones' radiation...
...Women are the first environment in which babies live,” Blechman said. “How can pregnant bodies sustain life if they collect toxins and secrete them through breast milk...
Jody’s page starts characteristically: “When I got pregnant and I was told that my blood type was A-, I asked the doctor what held him back from giving me an A+.” Later: “I graduated from Harvard in 1979 B.C. (Before Computers...