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Hence Washington's consternation when Mbeki's forceful, bold voice began speaking out often against the scientific assumptions of current AIDS therapies, refused to supply AZT to pregnant women to prevent transmission of HIV in the womb and then invited "AIDS dissident" scientists to sit on a prestigious national advisory panel. Disquiet deepened last week when Mbeki, opening the international AIDS conference, maintained that "we [can] not blame everything on a single virus" and stressed poverty as the most important factor. Almost everyone--including some of his most loyal political allies--has been stunned by Mbeki's HIV skepticism...
...told what to do by anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
Most recently, it closed with FBI agent Mulder (David Duchovny) being abducted by a UFO while nemesis Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) died (apparently) and partner Scully (Gillian Anderson) announced she was pregnant, apparently - as far as anyone watching the show could tell - without having had sex with anybody. Millions of viewers asked the eternal question: What the...? So Carter's session with the insatiable critics was a delicate ballet of obviously unanswerable questions and cryptic answers, which alternately conveyed, in classic Carter fashion, that he was holding back the mysteries of the universe or that he basically makes...
...Ritz-Carlton Huntington hotel. Will Scully deliver the baby this season? "I haven't thought about it yet." You wouldn't have had Mulder and Scully consummate their relationship off-screen last season, would you? "[Viewers] will have their prurience indulged." Could Scully turn out not to be pregnant at all? "I would never assume anything in 'The X-Files.' But I think that would be a real cheat... It would be like bringing back a dead character." Which, by the by, the series has more or less done with Cigarette-Smoking Man. So he's really dead this time...
...weeks of life. According to researchers, moms may be interacting with their newborns in ways that communicate their attitude toward food, such as delaying feeding to prevent girls from eating too much and getting fat. Experts urge that women who have had eating problems seek counseling before getting pregnant...