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They set out to show that exposure to nicotine in the womb might actually physiologically change the development of the brain’s nicotine receptors, resulting in an increased risk of nicotine dependence in adulthood...
Last year, HRL’s campus posters depicted a fictional fetus, “Natalie,” and tracked her development in the womb, accompanied by the Dr. Seuss slogan, “A person’s a person no matter how small.” The Natalie posters were repeatedly torn down. “We got a lot of criticism last spring,” says former HRL president Paul C. Schultz ’03-’04, also a Crimson editor. “You know, ‘they?...
...York Times--they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred to them earlier that The Reagans might crease a few lapels at the Republican National Committee...
...York Times - they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred to them earlier that The Reagans might crease a few lapels at the Republican National Committee...
...getting breast cancer. The risk was higher in the early years after giving birth to the child and greater in the mothers of boys. Scientists believe the link may have to do with mutations on the tumor-suppression gene p53 and with disruption of hormone levels inside the womb...