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...test the effect of social influence on eating habits, researchers conducted two experiments. In the first, 95 undergraduate women were individually invited to a lab ostensibly to participate in a study about movie viewership. Before the film began, each woman was asked to help herself to a snack of either M&M's or granola. Another "participant," who was actually an actor hired by the research team, grabbed her food first, in full view of the subjects at the snack line. In her natural state, the phony participant weighed 105 lb. and wore a size 0. But in about half...
...Indonesian woman gave birth to a 19-lb. 2-oz. baby behemoth on Sept. 24, but that was only the second weirdest pregnancy tale of the month. The strangest belongs to Julia Grovenburg, a 31-year-old Arkansas woman who has a double pregnancy. No, not twins - Grovenburg became pregnant twice, two weeks apart. Isn't that supposed to be impossible...
...Robert Atlas, chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Baltimore's Mercy Hospital, says he has never encountered a case of superfetation during practice. He says such pregnancies occur when a woman continues ovulating after becoming pregnant and when that second, fertilized egg is able to implant itself in the lining of the womb - two things that wouldn't happen in a normal pregnancy. Typically, hormonal changes prevent further ovulation and thicken the lining of the uterus to preclude a second embryo from attaching. Why didn't that happen with Grovenburg? No one's really sure...
...despite the bizarre elements of Palma’s pieces; thus, the floating hands and impossible physics of these photos seem well-integrated into the images.Palma’s use of illusion has an eerie, shocking effect. In “Coagulated love,” a young woman appears contemplative as she stands with her head down, back to the viewer; a severed hand grasps her shoulder, as if it is pressing her into that bowed position. At the entryway of the gallery, Palma states that one of his objectives is to “give a body...
Cantor, Representative Eric • fool is made of self by with the suggestion that an uninsured cancer-ridden woman should just find some charitable organization to pay for her operation...