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...titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying of testicular cancer. Among others on her hit list...
...Toniolo: Unfortunately, at this point, only using oral contraceptives and having more pregnancies are thought to reduce risk of ovarian cancer. Oral contraceptives because they regulate hormones, and pregnancies because while a woman is pregnant, her ovaries are in a sort of holding pattern, which is ultimately healthy. On a day-to-day basis, women should avoid using talc-based "feminine" products as well...
...also, according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, infants who have been on the breast even have better eyesight than those who have not. Researchers found too that the fatty acid in breast milk that contributes to this is present in such oily fish as sardines. And pregnant women who ate oily fish gave birth to kids with better eyesight than those who didn...
...fate of the dog samples will depend on Westhusin's work. He knows that even if he gets a dog viably pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and cardiovascular and weight problems. "Why would you ever want to clone humans," Westhusin asks, "when we're not even close to getting it worked out in animals...
...cause a woman's decision to adversely affect those who live around her. After all, living with a roommate who is in the process of miscarrying her fetus in a communal bathroom necessarily affects all of those around, and the private pain that is endured by the formerly-pregnant student is transmuted into a public concern...