| Mourning in America: Anna Nicole's bizarre legacy
With no mother and apparently three fathers, baby Dannielynn Smith has become the lucky door prize in a battle of custody and paternity that has transfixed and appalled America. The six-month-old daughter of the celebrity blonde Anna Nicole Smith appears to have been born with an inheritance as big as $US500 million ($A642 million). Her mother died mysteriously in a Florida hotel room on Thursday afternoon (Florida time). Police and medical officials ruled out physical trauma, and said there was no immediate evidence of a drug overdose, but it could take more than a month to establish the cause of death. Television and websites reported that an array of prescription medications and drugs were found in Smith's two-bedroom suite. As the story of her death was unfolding, Smith's estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, flew in to visit her granddaughter.
Samuel urges Uni to show their title credentials
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY can extend their advantage over tomorrow's opponents Edinburgh City to six points and the students' head coach Dougie Samuel believes lifting the Premier Division title is still not beyond his team. "For me this is the most important game of the season," emphasised Samuel. .
Dem unity? You can kiss that baby goodbye
I t seems that there must be about 20 years of peace in Hudson County between each political bloodletting. The last one was during the rise of Robert Janiszewski in the mid-1980s. The next one is here. There was a flood of phone calls, back and forth, among politicians in Hudson County and other areas of the state following Wednesday's column that detailed the failed attempt by Hudson County's state Senate delegation to block a challenge to Sen. Majority Leader Bernard Kenny. Sens. Nick Sacco, D-North Bergen, Joseph Doria, D-Bayonne, and Kenny, D-Hoboken, wanted to make it seem that a bill amending the Assembly version of a ban on dual office holding was the idea of Sen. Sharpe James, D-Newark. The Assembly version would ban dual jobs starting in February 2008, and, while both would grandfather everyone, the James version calls for the ban to begin immediately.
Garters and corsets and teddies — oh, my!
A couple of years ago, my wife greeted me wearing nothing but a seamless fishnet body stocking. With that image seared permanently in mind, I have since ventured out on occasion with the specific if somewhat prurient intent of buying her more lingerie. Yet walking into a lingerie store freaks me out. I can swim with the sharks and windsurf in 40 knots. I can eat raw oysters, for Pete's sake, but the thought of entering a lingerie shop and confronting all that ... possibility, well, um, er, isn't it time for a colonoscopy? And yet, we are talking about ... lingerie. Oh, yeah. Lingerie is all about sensuality, which is why we guys are drawn to it — and why it also scares the heck out of us. .
High-Risk Pregnancies Rising in U.S.
High-risk pregnancies are on the rise in the United States and may be more common now than at any other time since modern obstetric care became available.Why? More fortysomething moms are having babies, and epidemics of diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure are causing pregnancy and birth complications.But in this otherwise troubling trend is also some good news: A small but growing number of women are successfully having children despite life-threatening conditions that once made a safe pregnancy almost inconceivable.Exact numbers are not available, but doctors say that tens of thousands of organ transplant recipients, breast cancer survivors, women with heart defects, and even women with the AIDS virus have decided to risk childbearing in the last several years.Not all of these stories have happy endings, and many people worry that some of these women will not live long enough to raise their children, or that they will pass on their medical problems.But most results have been so surprisingly good that they are overturning decades of gloomy dogma about who is medically fit to have a child."These people define a whole new era of pregnancy for us," said Temple University's Dr.
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