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...additional 5% of the time. The sidewalks of Manhattan's Upper West Side are clogged these days by strollers for twins and triplets, pushed by gray-haired parents. And it's no longer unusual in any part of the country to meet women in their mid-40s who are pregnant for the first time...
They were hardly the sort of couple you would expect to have trouble with prenatal testing. The father, Dallas geneticist Dr. Paul Billings, was the author of pioneering studies about genetic screening and its problems. The mother, Suzi, was also a physician. When she became pregnant at 37, she not only opted for amniocentesis--mainly to check for Down syndrome, an increased risk for children of mothers her age--but also for a newer genetic probe for an inheritable neuromuscular disease. She knew that a member of her family carried the gene for it and realized she might have...
...nicknames was McGee-Whiz. In September of that year--he hadn't yet turned 24--he looked to become only the 11th man in baseball history to hit 50 home runs in a season. Going into the last day, he had 49. He also had a very pregnant wife ready to enter a California hospital. McGwire skipped the last game. "You always have another chance to hit 50," he said, and some might have taken that for either arrogance or stupidity had he not completed the thought with, "but you'll never have a chance to have your first child...
...OPPOSITE OF SEX A 16-year-old tramp seduces her gay half brother's lover, says she's pregnant and steals $10,000. Don Roos' Seven Characters in Search of a Spanking is pure modern romance: anguished, raunchy, caring. Praise be the entire cast and, what the heck, a Nobel Prize to Lisa Kudrow as a twisted spinster looking for love...
...months pregnant, Sacajawea helped direct the historic 31-person expedition on a safe path from the Ohio River Valley to the Pacific, negotiated so that Lewis and Clark could buy horses for the journey, translated for them and taught them to survive a cold winter on the plains...