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...BECAUSE DIANA WAS PREGNANT. The Windsors, in a theory pushed by Dodi's father, could not bear the idea of a Muslim strain in their bloodline. But former royal coroner John Burton, who witnessed Diana's postmortem, said flatly, "She wasn't pregnant. I have seen into her womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Diana Murdered? The Theories Live On! | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...urges that drive us, it's the passion to be held that makes itself known first. If a baby is startled fresh from the womb, German pediatrician Ernst Moro discovered in 1918, its arms will fly up and out, then come together in a desperate clutch. Holding is good, and floating free is bad--a lesson that's not so much learned after birth as preloaded at the factory. In fact, doctors have long known that babies who aren't held simply fail to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's a need we never outgrow. In one way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Sex & Health: Biology: The Power of Love | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...mastering even so basic an idea can be a slow process, often too slow when survival is on the line. And so nature provides us with a head start. Before we have a chance to practice our first little Moro grab--before we leave the womb, in fact--our pleasure engine is humming. "Little boys can have erections from the day they're born, sometimes even in utero," says Marrow. "Both sexes get pleasure from touching themselves without having to be taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Sex & Health: Biology: The Power of Love | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...During intercourse, once a woman's genitals are vigorously rubbed and her womb titillated, a lustfulness (an itch) overwhelms her down there, and the feeling of pleasure and warmth pools out through the rest of her body." HIPPOCRATES, physician (circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sex Talk Through the Ages | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...about 1,200 interviews asking pregnant women about their smoking habits. The scientists then followed up with the women’s children—now adults with an average age of 29—to determine whether there was any association between their exposure to nicotine in the womb and their current smoking habits...

Author: By Peter CHARLES Mulcahy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Utero Exposure to Nicotine May Addict | 12/10/2003 | See Source »

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