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...Though they are routinely administered to pregnant women as a way to detect fetal defects, expensive ultrasound screenings have not led to an increase in healthy babies. Experts now say the test should be done only in high-risk cases or at a woman's request...
...Crimson is also far from where it expected to be at this point. After a preseason pregnant with possibility, Harvard coaches and players foresaw a fast start in its first few games--a start that would help erase the memory of last year's last place finish, and the bevy of one-goal losses that dragged the Crimson down into the cellar of the Ivy League...
Kathrin, who is four months pregnant, survived the ensuing crash unharmed. By Friday, police had already arrested the 20-year-old triggerwoman, a 5-ft. 3-in., 210 pounder with gold-capped teeth whom friends likened to "Gangsta Bitch," the tough street woman described in the rap song by Apache. Police also grabbed Alvan Hudson, 19, who they say was in the truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade...
Which makes antipoverty efforts, by government standards, exceptionally efficient: only 11 different federal agencies and departments have a hand in administering 340-odd separate programs to aid families and children. Even so, a pregnant teenager who has a juvenile-offender record and is on welfare may have to deal with six caseworkers, each representing a different agency and no one able to deal with all her problems. Worse, they may operate under conflicting rules. A family receiving food stamps must not own a car worth more than $4,500 in market (that is, resale) value. But there is an exemption...
...Clintons went to visit Jim and Diane Blair at Beaver Lake, close to their roots in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where they got married, taught at the university and had their first home. It was 14 years ago on another visit to the Blairs' that Hillary found out she was finally pregnant. It was the day after she went water skiing, and Jim Blair remembers how worried she got that the spills she had taken might have done something to harm the baby -- the one she took skiing last week...