Nov 10, 2009 -
The Breasts
Inside a woman's breast are 15 to 20 sections called lobes. Each lobe is made of many smaller sections called lobules. Lobules have groups of tiny glands that can make milk.
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Nov 03, 2009 -
As health overhaul bills head toward the House and Senate floors this month, the divisive issue of abortion is threatening to derail them. Already in the House, one anti-abortion lawmaker, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), says he has enough votes to block the bill's consideration unless he is allowed to offer an amendment to strengthen language in the bill banning federal abortion funding.
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Oct 08, 2009 -
This is definitely an article with a clear slant and was written by someone who is clearly pro-choice and opposed to this law. Just letting you know in advance, so if that's not the kind of thing you'd like to read, you can skip it.
Feminists for Choice alerts us to a new Oklahoma law (yes, law, not "proposed legislation" or "some kind of sick joke") set to go into effect Nov. 1 that would collect detailed data about each abortion performed -- and post it all on a public Web site (called ShameOnYouWhore.com).
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Oct 02, 2009 -
In announcing on Wednesday that it would review a case that asks whether individuals have a fundamental right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court did more than just step into a heated debate over gun control. Although McDonald v.
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Sep 05, 2009 -
An Ill Wind is Breaking For Our President
T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII
Editor at Large, the National Topsider
Another Labor Day weekend wafts into Montauk, borne as always upon a chill wind of melancholy; a breeze that ushers in blithe spirits for the coming gay lawn soirees, the final chukkers of the summer polo leagues, the annual Montauk-to-Newport gin barrel regatta. But the selfsame mistral likewise presages season's end, and the maids' ritual packing away of the pastels and seersuckers for the annual migration to the dismally gauche winter quarters of Florida.
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Jun 15, 2009 -
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2009/06/09/loveed_0609.html
If I’d passed her on the street, I probably wouldn’t have known her. Her gait is a bit stiff and her left eye somehow different from her right. She’s not famous, exactly, but some people might know her name: Emily Lyons.
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Jun 15, 2009 -
ICU (Invisible Chronic Illness)
1. Arthritis
What is it? Arthritis refers to more than 100 different conditions that cause fatigue, inflammation, swelling, stiffness, and pain particularly in the joints.
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Jun 06, 2009 -
The Cancerian character is the least clear-cut of all those associated with the signs of the zodiac. It can range from the timid, dull, shy and withdrawn to the most brilliant, and famous Cancerians are to be found through the whole range of human activity. It is a fundamentally conservative and home-loving nature, appreciating the nest like quality of a secure base to which the male can retire when he needs a respite from the stresses of life, and in which the Cancerian woman can exercise her strong maternal instincts.
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Apr 22, 2009 -
FDA expands access to Plan B for 17-year-olds
Agency will allow drug to be sold over the counter to minors
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration says it will allow 17-year-olds to get the ‘morning-after’ birth control pill without a doctor’s prescription.
The FDA said Wednesday it will not appeal a federal judge’s order overturning restrictions that were imposed during the Bush administration.
U.S.
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Apr 22, 2009 -
WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will soon be allowed to buy “morning-after” contraceptive pills without a doctor’s prescription after federal drug regulators complied with a judge’s order and lowered the age limit by a year.
The decision Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, which overturns one of the most controversial health rulings of the Bush Administration, was scorned by anti-abortion advocates and hailed by their abortion rights counterparts. The long-running controversy involving Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, has had more of a political impact than a public health one.
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