| Twin pandas born in Japanese zoo | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:46:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Twin pandas have been born at a zoo in western Japan. Officials report one of the babies is considered premature, but both are in good condition. The zoo has not yet confirmed the sex of the cubs. According to China's Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency, that brings the number of artificially bred pandas born this year to 30, a record. But zoo officials in Japan say they're not sure whether the cubs born Saturday were the result of natural mating or artificial insemination. The zoo has two adult pandas on loan from China. The panda is one of the world's rarest animals. About 15,000 are thought to be living in the wild in China. Another 180 have been bred in captivity. .... | |
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| | | It's Vickie with an 'e" | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:47:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | There are not many with the last name Benoit residing here in Pineville, but of the few of us that do, at least two have the same name - Vicki (or as I spell it: Vickie). I am not the Vicki Benoit who wrote the recent letter on abortion. I have never met "the other Vicki Benoit" but being that we are both teachers within the same parish, and have the same name, I have been mistaken for her on many previous occasions, and I am guessing she has had the same experience at least once or twice. .... | |
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| | | French woman confessed to killing twin babies in South Korea ... | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:45:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | A French woman under investigation along with her husband over the deaths of two babies found in a freezer in the couple's house in South Korea has confessed that she killed the fraternal twins, a foreign media report said Wednesday. According to Reuters, which cited French police and prosecution sources, a DNA test confirmed an earlier test conducted in South Korea that showed Veronique Courjault and her husband Jean-Louis were the parents of the dead babies. She admitted to killing the children herself, the report said, quoting the sources. But she reportedly told the police that her husband has nothing to do with the babies' deaths. The motive for her alleged action was not reported. Courjault faces life imprisonment in France if convicted of infanticide. The couple has been under investigation since being arrested the previous day.... | |
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| | | Twin foetuses found in sewage plant | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:47:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | PETALING JAYA: Someone in Taman Wawasan flushed the foetuses of twins down his toilet bowl. This is what police believe after the six-month-old foetuses of a brother and sister turned up at the sewage treatment plant in Jalan Wawasan, Puchong near here. The treatment plant services more than 100 households and police are trying to trace where the foetuses came from. Subang Jaya district police chief ACP Muhammad Fuad Talib said it was likely that the foetuses were flushed down the toilet of one of the houses in the neighbourhood. "It turned up at the treatment plant and we are sure it was not placed there." He said they were working on several leads. The foetuses, with their heads barely larger than snooker balls, were discovered about 8.30am by a labourer at the plant.... | |
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| | | 911 Call: 'We Got Two Babies ... Look Like They've Died' | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:47:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The mother who told police she smothered her twin babies because they were crying in her bed has undergone a preliminary evaluation.Defense lawyer Steve Davis says a doctor found 20 year oldLakeia Nicole White suffers from ``postpartum psychosis'' or ``major manic depression.''Her twin 9 month old boys were found dead when paramedics arrived at the Moncks Corner home earlier this month.White is charged with homicide by child abuse.Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad says White told authorities the twins woke up around one am crying. Rhoad says White ``pushed the pillow down over their heads to hush them up'' and when they quit crying, she rolled over and went to sleep.Prosecutors also want White to undergo a mental evaluation. October 25, 2006 8:19 AM .... | |
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| | | Doctor was suspended after deaths of two babies at hospital | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:46:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | A DOCTOR was suspended after two babies he delivered died following complications during labour, health managers said yesterday. The mothers of the babies are planning to take legal action against hospital bosses. Lisa Paget's daughter Erin was delivered stillborn at St John's Hospital in Livingston in July by locum Dr Tundy Shokoye. .... | |
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| | | Mom charged in deaths of twin babies | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 2:46:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | MONCKS CORNER, S.C. Authorities in South Carolina say a woman has confessed to killing her twin nine-month-old sons because they were crying in her bed. Police say the 20-year-old mother told them she went back to sleep after smothering the boys. Lakeia White has been charged with homicide by child abuse. Officials say it appears the boys had been asphyxiated. A minister who baptized the twins two weeks ago says they were "beautiful kids." The Reverend Willis Goodwin says their mother was a "very, very quiet and orderly girl." The killings took place in Moncks Corner, which is 30 miles north of Charleston. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .... | |
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| | | Police upset parents of twins | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 10:46:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | The parents of twin babies who died suddenly last month have spoken of their distress over the police handling of their case. The young Wellington couple are angry at the way police treated the suspected cot deaths as similar to the deaths of the Kahui twins and they want an apology and compensation. Teenage sweethearts Jess Malaulau and Heemi Steel were loving parents and say Sapphire and Serenity came first "before anything." Although the pregnancy wasn't planned their initial misgivings quickly gave way to excitement. The twin girls were born 11 weeks early in May and died three weeks ago. Jess woke up one morning and immediately realised Sapphire "didn't look right." She says the baby's face was a funny colour and she woke Heemi and told him the baby wasn't breathing.... | |
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| | | After long haul, African student has twin reasons to be grateful | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 6:46:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | With blue jeans, pink-striped tops and corn-rowed hair, the two 4-year-olds look perfectly alike, at least to me. Their mother, Veronica Makwinja-Morara, however, maintains they are not alike and invites me to see that Tiiso Morara has a rounder face than Tiisetso Morara. I request the two girls look at me briefly, as I try to make out the difference. Two long minutes on, I still cannot see any disparity. Presently, the twins begin to get fed up with my inspection. I respectfully concede defeat and let them go. The identical twins go back to play, polishing up the final look of Dora's fairly-tale castle their mother brought home earlier in the day. Tiiso (Setswana for "strength or perseverance") and Tiisetso (Setswana for "more strength or more perseverance"), their mother, an Ohio University doctoral student in education, tells me, are nothing short of a miracle.... | |
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| | | Restricted fetal growth increases risk of irritable bowel syndrome | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:46:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Babies weighing less than the standard weight seem to be at significantly greater risk of developing irritable bowel syndrome or IBS, suggests research published ahead of print in the journal Gut. The Norwegian authors base their findings on 3334 twin pairs, 1250 of whom were identical. The twins completed a comprehensive questionnaire about their health, including whether they had ever had IBS. This information was then matched with weight at birth, supplied by the national twin registry and divided into four groups, ranging from less than 1500 g to more than 2500 g. A healthy birthweight is considered to be above 2500 g. The rate of IBS across the entire sample was 5.4%, roughly one in 20. But there was a significant gender difference: the rate in men was 3%, while that in women was 7%.... | |
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