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Although the World Health Organization recommends that women have three pap smears a year, many poorer countries lack the money, technology and trained clinicians required to perform the tests—as well as the infrastructure needed to track women whose tests are abnormal...
...separated at birth, one growing up to be a “hero” and the other, an “anti-hero.” By the end of the movie, the anti-hero either reforms or dies saving his brother—but not before they perform a dance together (accompanied by their blind mother...
...Where does that leave biomedical researchers? With very little to work with. Most abortion foes will argue that scientists should use adult stem cells to investigate potential cures. But it?s universally accepted that adult stem cells used for research generally don?t perform as well as embryonic stem cells would...
DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...This was Guangzhou's finest, grade A public hospital when it was built 40 years ago. Now, it is one of hundreds of private and state-owned clinics stretching from the boomtown of Shenzhen to the ancient city of Guangzhou that perform tens of thousands of abortions every year. They draw pregnant women from across China, and beyond. "Women come from Hong Kong for treatment all the time," says a tired gynecologist at the Guangzhou Area People's Hospital. "They even fly in from Beijing, Singapore and Macau...