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Buying Your Child’s Gender: Would You Do It?
By
Padmini Mangunta
This comes to no surprise to those of you who have heard various versions of my emphatic utterances “I’m in no shape to have or raise a baby right now thank ye very much,” but I must say I’m fairly ignorant about the next generation science of babymaking. So I was interested in reading this…
Smoking: When Do I Say Something?
By
Padmini Mangunta
Holly Rossi over at Fresh Living asks a question in her post, When Should You Confront a Smoker? A great question in my opinion, and it got me thinking. My dad was, quite simply, the definition of a chain-smoker. And he was a doctor, which made his addiction an unforgivable hypocrisy in my mind as a…
Medical Marijuana: Hey, Man, Does The Fed’s New Policy Bum You Out?
By
hfields
Me? I think marijuana should be subject to the same laws as alcohol. The way I see it, they're similarly dangerous--so regulate pot, make it aboveboard, (or, if that's too radical, available by prescription only in every state), remove the stigma, take the drug cartels out of the equation. Oh, and also, how about making…
Should Smokers’ Lungs Be Used?
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Padmini Mangunta
I recently had an interesting debate about health care with my brother, a doctor in the Navy. As debates between the two of us generally go, we circled around a number of topics before ending the call. One such topic ended with the shared opinion (a shared opinion is mighty rare when it comes to…
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