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...weeks before Valentine's Day are prime dumping ground for these wish-fulfillment fantasies, most of which tend to be appallingly formulaic. At least, and this is something to be grateful for, Bride Wars deviates from the usual wedding-flick routine of maids of honor who should be the bride (or groom). And even though the catfighting goes over the top, the notion that a passionate female friendship can turn ugly in a heartbeat is, sadly, realistic. Women friends have a sharp sense of one another's soft underbelly, and what we love about our best girlfriends can easily...
...conservative critics insisted, it got home-heating fuel to hundreds of thousands of yanquis during the past four winters, when the price was often skyrocketing. On Monday, however, with world oil prices plunging, the Venezuelan President decided to suspend his large-scale, multistate U.S. program in order to tend to financial concerns at home. Then on Wednesday, at the urging of U.S. politicians whose constituents had come to rely on the oil, Chávez reversed himself and said the heating oil would keep flowing this winter...
...delivery before 39 weeks of gestation, the safety cutoff recommended by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). ACOG's guideline is based on studies showing that prior to 39 weeks, babies' lungs are often too undeveloped to function properly outside the womb, and babies at this age tend to have difficulty regulating their blood sugar. In the trial, led by Dr. Alan Tita at UAB and published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, babies delivered at 37 weeks by elective C-section were twice as likely as those born at 39 weeks to have complications...
...Lopez famous—fat found in the buttocks and thighs—may actually help prevent diabetes. Those with generous derrieres, or “pear-shaped” bodies, store subcutaneous fat in their hips and buttocks. Those with “apple-shaped” bodies tend to store weight around their abdomens. Researchers already knew abdominal obesity came with a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. What Kahn wanted to know was what would happen if the fat from the two areas was switched. So he injected lower-body fat from mice into their abdomens...
...their children,” Winickoff said. “But we needed a way to capture the idea that just because the smoke wasn’t visible, it was still harmful.” Crawling babies and toddlers are especially susceptible to third-hand smoke, as they tend to be closer to contaminated surfaces, Winickoff explained. He added that because children weigh less, toxins that they inhale affect them more than they do adults. Winickoff and his colleagues collected their data through a national random-digit-dial telephone survey from September to November 2005. Their analysis...