Mr. O'Brien, having had a taste of what it means to step into a hot gender issue, emphasized today that he had empathy for Ms. Swift; one of his daughters recently bore twins, he said.
Women were excluded from the present analyses if they did not participate through delivery or did not give birth to a live child (n = 64), bore twins (n = 5), refused to give a blood sample or gave a sample of insufficient volume for PBDE (n = 168) or TH (n = 69) analyses, or took medication that could affect TH levels (n = 1).
The maternal darkness endeavors to give birth and miscarries twice, then bears twin boys who grow up to quarrel constantly about which of them was born first.
It is now mating season, and these sheep are known to bear twins and triplets and "multiply quickly," Ms. Festa said.
The zoo initially announced the birth of one cub on 7 August, but on Tuesday it said Yang Yang had actually borne twins, her fourth and fifth cubs after Fu Long, Fu Hu and Fu Bao.
It may seem cruel, this annual slaughtering of lambs, the very emblem of innocence to many, but ewes often bear twins, occasionally triplets, and sheep farmers (or simply shepherds, as many prefer to be known) need to regularly thin their flocks or the number of sheep could rapidly become unmanageable, as the wild deer population has in recent years.
While Mr McInerney does drop the odd ironic detail an argument over whether Israeli or American military gas masks are more reliable in the main he relates his story with po-faced earnestness.A would-be screenwriter married to an editor who runs with Salman Rushdie's set, Corrine was left infertile by a bout of anorexia and has borne twins only with the help of her sister's implanted eggs.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries to control nilgai by shooting them from helicopters, but nilgai often bear twins.
These results provide evidence that women who bear twins are at reduced risk of breast cancer, one explanation for which may be their unusual levels of hormonal exposure.
