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This concept may be easier to implement now that fathers are more involved in the care of their young children. If it's pregnant women asking to work at home, employers can brush off their requests much more facilely than if it's a good percentage of their male and female employees wanting the same thing...
...research reveals the pros and cons of estrogen, the therapy's popularity has flowed and ebbed like some sort of national hormonal cycle. Wilson's book did wonders for the sale of Premarin (a form of estrogen made from -- and named for -- a pregnant mare's urine). But estrogen use plummeted after 1975, when studies revealed that women taking the hormone had up to a 14-fold increased risk of uterine cancer. Reports of a 30% increased risk of breast cancer scared away many others...
...fighting. Some 200 Chechens are holding about 1,000 residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar Dudayev denies any connection to the rebels, who aredemanding that Russia halt all military operations in Chechnya. One group of gunmen, holed up in the city's hospital with 300 hostages, including pregnant women and small children, has threatened to shoot 10 captives for any Chechen killed by Russian soldiers...
...government made too many promises. We have got to make changes, not just to preserve Medicare and Medicaid but to make health care more available to everyone." And there was the caller who complained about a Utah Congressman who brought his newborn to his office. Said Waldholtz, who is pregnant: "This is not an eight-hour-a-day job. We are frequently working 12-, 14-hour days...
...jobs were sometimes dangerous. Until shewas eight months pregnant, Judy Carter wouldshimmy up trees to saw off the tops with achainsaw and sell them for firewood. Even as achild, Tracey was intensely aware of beingdifferent from the rest of the community...