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HOMOSEXUALITY Ray Blanchard at the University of Toronto has found that gay men are more likely than either lesbians or heterosexual men to have older brothers (but not older sisters). He has since confirmed this observation in 14 samples from many places. Something about occupying a womb that has held other boys occasionally results in reduced birth weight, a larger placenta and a greater probability of homosexuality. That something, Blanchard suspects, is an immune reaction in the mother, primed by the first male fetus, that grows stronger with each male pregnancy. Perhaps the immune response affects the expression...
...free the Iraqi people from the kind of torture she went through. Her story really ripped my heart out. I hope no one ever again has to suffer the trials Nouman endured. The bottom line is that the war has at least freed one very courageous woman. CORA CHEUNG Toronto...
...Unfortunately, it's a war that Taiwan may be losing. Elsewhere, there were strong signs last week that the SARS epidemic was running out of steam. Toronto was removed from the World Health Organization's (WHO) list of travel danger zones, and a WHO official said it appeared the disease was waning even in hard-hit Hong Kong, where the number of new infections had fallen to just a handful a day. But the fever is spiking in Taiwan. Since the Hoping Hospital outbreak, the number of SARS victims has soared from 28 to 308, a 91% increase in just...
...Yenching’s decision is the latest in a series of SARS-related restrictions at the University. Although the University has lifted its ban on travel to Toronto, Singapore, and Vietnam, the moratorium is still in effect for travel to mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong...
While the University ban was loosened over the last two weeks to allow travel to Toronto, Vietnam and Singapore, the moratorium remains in effect for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan...