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...with high anxiety levels from weeks 12 to 22 of their pregnancies were more likely to have children who act out or are hyperactive as 8-and 9-year-olds. While maternal stress can trigger physiological events that might affect fetal development, the exact mechanism is not clear. Also uncertain is whether the anxious moms were themselves genetically predisposed to hyperactivity. Researchers hope that timely intervention might benefit both anxious mothers-to-be and their kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Anxious Moms | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...five years since the July in Philadelphia when the author of the Declaration of Independence had, in two inspired weeks of writing energized by years of thought and study and practical political activity, helped create a new nation with his pen. The course this nation would follow remained uncertain, the fate of its central ideals undecided and the question of its very survival unclear, but Jefferson's direction was firm and fixed: away from politics and public life and back to his cherished plantation, Monticello. Back to his loved ones, his gardens, his fields, his library and to the scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Philosopher-President: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...Connor added she was uncertain of the contents...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Box Prompts Holyoke Evacuation | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

...Connor added she was uncertain of the contents...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Suspicious Package Prompts Partial Evacuation of Holyoke Center | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

Hope is an infectious disease, and Reagan was a carrier. The country he courted and finally won over in 1980 was a dispirited place, humiliated abroad, uncertain at home, with a hunger for heroes but little faith that they could make any difference. But you can, he told us. I am not the hero, you are. "Let us renew our faith and our hope," he declared in his first Inaugural Address. "We have every right to dream heroic dreams." And he would serve as Dreamer in Chief. "What I'd really like to do," he said after six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

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