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...When he undertook primal scream therapy under Dr. Arthur Janov in 1970, Lennon instinctively took painful revelations and turned them into cathartic art. Lennon had been abandoned by his father before birth, and then again when he was 5. His mother gave him up to be raised by her sister. Lennon lost his mother again when he was 18, when she was run over by a drunken policeman. Twelve years later, Lennon philosophized it simply and heartbreakingly. "Mother... you had me - but I never had you. I needed you - but you didn't need...
BACKGROUND: Inside the Beltway from birth. The son of George and Barbara Bush's pet Millie, Spot was born in the White House...
...EATING FOR TWO A report in the International Journal of Eating Disorders estimates that as many as a third of women with an eating disorder will continue their unhealthy habits during pregnancy. Restricted food intake is associated with a higher rate of miscarriage and doubles the chances of birth defects. It also increases the mother's risk of osteoporosis later in life, as the nutrient-deprived fetus leeches calcium from her body during the pregnancy...
Eventually they'll even understand you. The 10-year horizon promises the birth of both natural-language software that "understands" many complex sentences, and broadband data speeds that make online video ubiquitous. The average software product in 2010 could well have a face, a voice, ears and something resembling a brain, which suggests that our next great challenge will be figuring out what we really want...
...INVENTOR: MERCK Perhaps you didn't know this, but turkeys are sold by gender--toms as cutlets and deli meats, hens as whole birds. So turkey breeders must separate hatchlings at birth. But genetic breeding has made it nearly impossible to tell the difference without, uh, checking the goods, a messy process at best. The Merck team patented Gender-Specific Fading Down, meaning boys are born with black feathers, girls with brown. The colors fade as the turkeys grow...