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Our toxic bodies: Historian’s book explores chemicals’ health effects
Nancy Langston, an environmental historian at UW-Madison, has just published a book in which she examines the history of synthetic chemicals that disrupt hormones and, she says, have made humans “toxic waste sites.”

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Mecklem touts fight for farmland and jobs
Greg Mecklem wants to be Washington County’s commissioner for District 4 because he feels some of the most important issues are being missed.

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Your mother and mine
Mothers choose the happiness and success of their children overtheir own. Their altruism is innate and unswerving. They don’t puttheir children first because they have consciously decided to beselfless, but simply as a reflex, without any sort of thought orintention. When women become mothers, their priorities shift toseeing to the needs of their children.

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Moms showed grace, style, sense of duty
The women of the Greatest Generation lived in discouraging times. Yet, they managed to develop an unflagging sense of optimism, an indefatigable determination and a limitless reservoir of encouragement.

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Love-handle with care: the danger of being a meaty miss
Big girls, my friend says. I’m seeing them everywhere.

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Pregnancy and heartburn
Many people are familiar with one of the major side effects of pregnancy, but there’s another that does not get much attention.

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Fine Dining Where Strollers Don’t Invite Sneers
Some New York restaurants welcome children grudgingly, at best, but others go out of their way to cater to them.

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Mom, 4-year-old rescued by swim coach, floating ottoman
More than 30 people have died in historic flooding in the Southeast. Neelyann Sheucraft and her 4-year-old daughter barely escaped being among them.

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Fort Myers fundraiser concert will benefit Tennessee flooding victims
A May 15 concert is being organized to help flooding victims in Tennessee.

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Vaishali: THE H WORD:There Is Nothing Better Than Happiness For Mother’s Day
The added perk to being in the present moment with an open heart is that the tyranny of the ego loses its power in that state.

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