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...required to note the presence of sulfites, which can cause certain allergic reactions, but for relatively few imbibers and only if consumed at levels well in excess of what is found in table wines. Last year two new warnings were mandated: one about the risk of birth defects for pregnant women who drink and another about consumption impairing the ability to drive...
...taking financial-counseling courses in emptiedout Army forts, when women who have never written a check must finally care for household expenditures, when parents in the army can't do anything with their children but send them to relatives in distant towns, when some wives are eights months pregnant, others newly married, and others can't speak English, sixty dollars for a teddy bear appears a bit inconsiderate, a bit frivolous...
...Washington were really serious about alleviating the drug problem, state and local governments would establish urgent projects to find and deal with addicted mothers of young children and pregnant drug users. Treatment would be made available promptly to every person who wanted it. Federal and state governments would build enough jails, with humane conditions for prisoners, so that judges would no longer feel obliged to turn traffickers out on the streets. There would be many more judges and probation officers to make sure that criminals did their time and stayed clean afterward. U.S. diplomats would no longer cover...
...whether toxins could trigger more insidious defects in the sperm -- problems subtle enough to allow the birth of the child but still harmful enough to produce serious malformations. Perhaps the most disturbing recent report concerns lead, which had been shown to impair fetal growth when mothers were exposed while pregnant. At a meeting last month of the American Public Health Association, Silbergeld reported on a study in which male rats subjected to even low levels of the toxic metal -- comparable to amounts found in the dust and dirt of many inner-city neighborhoods -- often sired offspring with "substantial" changes...
...nation's fourth largest city is popular, plain clothed, passionate about reform and very pregnant -- and outranks her husband...