Feature
By JYOTIRMOY DATTA
NEW YORK -- Echoes of the shots fired by Pakistani policemen on Feb. 21, 1952, killing five Dhaka University students demonstrating for official-language status for Bengali, have since been resounding in cities around the world where there is a strong presence of Bangladeshis.
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Pregnancy
YOUR HEALTH: Nutrition During Pregnancy
You can begin being a responsible, loving mother from the first day you find out you are pregnant. Eat well for your growing baby. There is nothing more important you can do over the next nine months than to take care of your own body and nourish the baby with safe and nutritious foods.
Pregnant women are often concerned about gaining too much weight. If you’re eating sensibly, most of the weight you are gaining is the baby - for most women its about 40 percent of the weight they gain. An average weight gain is between 20 and 35 pounds.
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Sex
Sex
Queries
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During the past six years disharmony between my husband and me has increased because he has been unable to prolong the sex act. He reaches a climax in about three minutes, while I reach a climax in about ten minutes. In all our marital relations in a month, I usually have only one climax. Isn’t there something wrong in his reaching a
climax in so quick a time? How long should normal intercourse take?
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Women
Health
Recognize
the Risks
In the past few decades, epidemiologic studies have established the following risk factors for acquiring breast cancer, according to the American Cancer Society:
Increasing age. Besides being female, age is the single most important risk factor for the development of breast cancer. More than 75 percent of all breast cancers occur in women over 50.
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Child
Care
Ear Infections
Ear infections are the number one reason children visit their physicians due to illness, following the common cold. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ear infections in children account for more than 30 million physician office visits per year. More than 85 percent of three-year-old children have experienced at least one ear infection.
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Women News
Exhibition of dresses handmade by socially handicapped girls begins
Woes of migrants from Bangladesh expressed candidly
Women with brooms demand Pak apology for atrocities
Construction-work of Begum Rokeya Memorial Centre in full swing
President & GS of Businesswomen's Club meet President Shahabuddin
Miraculous escape of child from ill-fated launch
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