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12 AUGUST 23, 2008 TEHRAN TIMES INTERNATIONAL DAILY
Pigeon in
61-year-old
woman gives Prenatal stress has long-term custody for
birth in Japan smuggling
TOKYO (AP) -- A 61-year-old
Japanese woman gave birth to
her own grandchild, using an egg
donated by her daughter, a clinic
effects on children
MONTREAL (Canada.com) -- High stress dur- their peers before they reach school age.
drugs to
Bosnian
said Thursday. ing pregnancy, whether the woman perceives But the impact of high stress levels in-utero
Surrogate births are extremely
rare in Japan and banned by indus-
it as positive or negative stress, may have a
long-term negative effect on IQ scores and
seem to be longer term.
Third, the researchers note that the woman's
prisoners
try groups, but they are not illegal. the language development of her child, a new subjective reaction to the ice storm was not rel- SARAJEVO (AFP) -- Bosnian po-
The Suwa Maternity Clinic in Na- study of children born in the months after the evant to the outcome for her baby. lice have impounded a pigeon af-
gano, northwest of Tokyo, refused 1998 ice storm in Quebec suggests. Even when the mothers perceived the expe- ter discovering prisoners used it
to provide information such as the The study, to be published in the September rience of the ice storm to have been positive - to smuggle drugs into one of the
date of the birth or gender of the issue of the Journal of the American Academy because they had many guests, for example, or country's highest security jails,
baby. News reports said the baby of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, looked at 89 were off work - the additional physical stress, such an official said Thursday.
was born last year. children whose mothers were pregnant during the as sleep deprivation and fatigue, on the women "The guards suspected the
The clinic said it performed the January 1998 ice storm in Quebec. These chil- seems to have been detrimental to the develop- animal might be involved in drug
procedure because the woman's dren were assessed for IQ and language skills at ment of their children. smuggling once they noticed four
daughter has no uterus, but didn't 5 1/2 years of age. The mothers were sorted into low, moderate prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly
give details on why she had that The research suggests that the children and high-stress groups based on an objective after the pigeon landed on a prison
condition. The surrogate mother whose mothers experienced high levels of measure of the stress to which they were ex- window," Zenica prison official Josip
used a fertilized egg donated by her stress during the ice storm had significantly posed, such as length of power outage, number Pojavnik told AFP.
daughter. lower scores in IQ tests and language tests of times relocated, or loss of income. All four inmates had tested posi-
"Both surrogate mother and baby compared to children of mothers exposed to The study implies that women should try to tive for heroin, said Pojavnik, adding
were fine," said Chihiro Netsu, a low levels of stress. keep their lives as stable as possible during preg- disciplinary proceedings had been
spokeswoman for the clinic. High stress during pregnancy, whether the nancy, Laplante said. It might not be the best time launched against the inmates.
Dr. Yahiro Netsu, who runs the woman perceives it as positive or negative stress, to take on highly stressful challenges - such as The drugs, he added, had prob-
clinic, has long defied national op- may have a negative effect on IQ scores and the moving to a larger home, getting married or start- ably been stuffed into tiny bags
position to such procedures, argu- language development of her child, a new study ing a new job - even if they are perceived as posi- attached to the legs of the carrier
ing that they should be an option for suggests. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images tive changes. pigeon, which one of the prison-
woman who are infertile. Lead researcher David Laplante of the Doug- "Pregnancy is already a big change and when ers had previously been allowed to
In 2001, he performed what is las Mental Health University Institute and his team you add another major stress, even if it is not ex- keep as a pet in his cell.
thought to be the country's first suc- have published studies with similar results in the perienced as negative stress," the fetus could be "We suspect that the pigeon car-
cessful surrogate birth. In 1998, past stemming from their ice storm research, but affected negatively, he said. ried the drugs from Tuzla," a town
Netsu was expelled from Japan's the new study had three surprising conclusions. guage-related development, exposure to moder- Laplante noted that virtually all of the children around 70 kilometres (more than 40
gynecology association for perform- First, the study supports other research that ate levels may actually enhance performance." involved in the study, including the high-stress miles) northeast of Zenica in central
ing in-vitro fertilizations with eggs suggests that moderate levels of stress on a preg- Second, researchers had expected the nega- group, scored above average on IQ tests, and are Bosnia, he added.
and sperm of donors who were not nant woman may actually be better for a baby tive impact of in-utero stress to dissipate by age "all doing well." The pigeon had been taken
married to each other, though he than the lowest and highest levels of stress. five; that they might, in fact, "catch up" to their Participation in such studies is voluntary, he into custody by police, who have
was later reinstated. "Although . . . high levels of objective prenatal peers in the same way low-risk premature infants noted, and participants tend to be better educated launched an investigation aimed at
The spokeswoman said the 61- maternal stress results in less than optimal lan- tend to catch up in most areas of development to than the norm. identifying those who had loaded it
year-old woman was believed to up with the drugs.
be the oldest surrogate mother in
Japan, and news reports said she
was the oldest woman to have given
birth overall.
The Japanese Health Ministry
Thai king world's wealthiest royal: Forbes
NEW YORK (AFP) -- With a fortune estimated One of two Europeans on the list, Prince Hans-
"We do not know what to do with the
pigeon, but for the time being it will remain
behind bars," Pojavnik said.
The incident had prompted the
prison administration to consider
does not release precise statistics at 35 billion dollars, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adam II of Liechtenstein, 63, ranked six on the list closing down a prisoner pigeon-
on mothers' ages, saying only that Adulyadej is the world's richest royal sover- with 5 billion dollars in wealth. However the bank breeding project established in a
there were two births to women eign, and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed that is a key source of his family's wealth, LGT, is ward of the jail as part of a rehabili-
aged 55 or older in 2006, the latest Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi is far back at No. 2, under investigation by the United States for help- tation program, he added.
year that figures were available for. Forbes magazine reported Thursday. ing wealthy people evade taxes. Pojavnik insisted those birds had
Mainichi newspaper reported King Bhumibol, 80 and, at 62 years on the Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, not been involved in the incident.
that the previous oldest mothers in throne the world's longest-serving head of state, 56, came in at seventh, worth two billion dollar; A similar case of carrier pigeons
Japan were two 60-year-old women pushed to the top of the richest royals list by vir- eighth was King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 46, being used by prisoners was report-
implanted with their own fertilized tue a greater transparency surrounding his for- his 1.5 billion dollar fortune based on phosphate edly uncovered earlier this year at a
eggs in the United States. tune, Forbes said. mining, agriculture and other investments. jail in Brazil, where the birds were
Japan Society of Obstetrics and It said that the Crown Property Bureau, which Number nine was Prince Albert II of Monaco, being used to deliver drugs and
Gynecology, a powerful body with manages most of his family's wealth, "granted 50, his diverse fortune in the southern European even mobile telephones.
over 15,000 members, has banned
such procedures, but they are not il-
legal and individual clinics are free
unprecedented access this year, revealing vast
landholdings, including 3,493 acres in Bangkok."
Forbes called it a good year for monarchies,
principality put at 1.4 billion dollars.
Tenth on the list was Sultan Qaboos bin Said
of Oman, 67, worth 1.1 billion dollars.
Budget
to perform them -- though few actu- investment-wise. "As a group, the world's 15 rich- Rounding out the top 15 were: The Aga Khan
ally do.
At Suwa Maternity Clinic, eight
surrogate mothers have given birth.
est royals have increased their total wealth to 131
billion dollars, up from 95 billion last year," Forbes
said on its website.
Prince Karim Al Hussein, 71 (1.0 billion); Brit-
ain's Queen Elizabeth II, 82, 650 million dollars;
Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-
bride's
Of them, four women have delivered
babies using fertilized eggs from
their daughters.
With oil prices soaring, the monarchs of the
petro-kingdoms of the Middle East and Asia dom-
inate the list.
Sabah, 79, 500 million dollars; Queen Beatrix
Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, 70, 300
million dollars; and King Mswati III of Swaziland,
basement
The clinic will report the latest Sheik Khalifa, 60, the current president of the 40, with 200 million dollars.
case at a conference of the Japan
Society of Fertilization and Implan-
tation later this month. It was the
United Arab Emirates, was estimated to be worth
23 billion dollars, on the back of Abu Dhabi's huge
petroleum reserves.
endowed Brunei on the Southeast Asia island of
Borneo, fell to fourth place with 20 billion dollars.
"The sultan, who inherited the riches of an un-
Forbes noted that because many of the roy-
als inherited their wealth, share it with extended
families, and often control it "in trust for their na-
bargains
A bride and groom are celebrat-
first time the fertilization conference In third was the sovereign of the world's big- broken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty, has had to tion or territory," none of those on its list would ing their special day - without
had taken up the subject of surro- gest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah bin cut back on his country's oil production because qualify for the magazine's famous annual world the worry of being thousands of
gate births, Netsu said. Abdul Aziz, 84, who inherited the Al-Saud family of depleting reserves," Forbes explained of his billionaires ranking. pounds in debt.
throne in 2005, came in with a fortune of 21 bil- dwindling fortune. "Because of technical and idiosyncratic oddi-
Odette Fenwick, 19, and 21-
Indian woman, 55, lion dollars.
The previous king of kings, wealth-wise, 62
Fifth was Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, 58,
of another Emirate, Dubai, with a net worth of 18
ties in the exact relationship between individual
and state wealth, these estimates are perforce a
year-old Chris May spent a grand
total of £480 on their wedding day
has quadruplets in year old Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of tiny, oil- billion dollars. blend of art and science," it added.
in north Devon.
Wearing a £52 dress bought on
Italy
ROME (AFP) -- A 55-year-old In-
dian woman has given birth to
New rules make China's Bao world's tallest again
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Guin- too important a category for us to under normal conditions." World Record holder meant that
eBay, the radiant bride looked a mil-
lion dollars and said she felt "like a
princess". The groom hired a suit for
quadruplets in the northern Ital-
ness World Records has returned leave it to a doctor alone," Glen- Stadnyk said he sees his height he found himself a wife, his life im- £90.
ian city of Mantua, a local news-
the title of world's tallest man to day said. "So we decided to tighten more as a burden than a blessing, proved," said Glenday, adding that The Ilfracombe couple ex-
paper there reported Thursday.
China's Bao Xishun after Ukrain- things up completely to make sure saying "the world is built for medi- Bao and his 5 foot 6 inch (1.68 me- changed vows and rings, which cost
The woman, who has lived in
ian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be there was no doubt." um-sized people." He and his moth- tre) wife are expecting a baby later £19, at a civil ceremony in Barnsta-
nearby Suzzara for 15 years, had
measured under new guidelines. Glenday said Guinness had been er were living off a pension of about this year. ple.
gone home to India to be artificially
Bao, who stands at 7 feet, 8.95 asking Stadnyk since about 2004 -- $100 (54 pounds) a month and Bao hires himself out for public- "One of my favorite bargains was
inseminated after trying unsuccess-
fully in Italy, La Gazzetta di Mantova inches (2.36 metres), held the title when the organization first heard of whatever else they earn from grow- ity stunts and his wedding last year the rings. We bought them from a
said. for a year before losing it in 2006 him -- if they could measure him, of- ing tomatoes and cucumbers and was sponsored by at least 15 com- jewelers on the seafront in Ilfra-
"We have been waiting for this to Stadnyk, who is 8 feet 5.5 inches fering to fly officials to the Ukraine or raising chickens, cows and pigs. panies. In December 2006, Bao combe," the bride said.
moment for 15 years," the babies' (2.57 metres) tall, Craig Glenday, fly him to Britain. Bao, however, loves the publicity saved the lives of two dolphins by The other wedding essentials
38-year-old father Pabla Maghar editor-in-chief of Guinness World "He has gone on record saying that came with his title and "was a reaching deep into their stomachs came from the internet, charity
Singh said. "We are really very hap- Records, told Reuters. he doesn't want to be bothered. bit gutted" when he found out he had with his 3.47-foot (1.06-metre) long shops and bargain rails.
py." While Bao has been measured Basically he doesn't want the fame lost it to Stadnyk, Glenday said. The arm to pull out pieces of plastic, ac- "The price tag does not matter, it
The four boys, born a week ago, by Guinness, which required him to and publicity that comes with be- Inner Mongolian livestock herder cording to Chinese media. is the meaning of the day which is
were named Manav, Manmeet, Ro- be measured six times in one day ing the world's tallest man," he said. has not yet learned he is again of- Bao reached his height in a sev- important," May said.
shan and Radveer. -- both standing and lying down -- "Whether or not that's the real rea- ficially the world's tallest. en-year spurt that began in his teens "The money is irrelevant, it is just
They were born two months pre- Stadnyk has refused. His title was son ... I'm not sure, but that's what Bao is recrowned in the Guinness which doctors have yet to explain, a special day."
mature, weighing between 750 and awarded based on a statement from he's told us." World Records 2009 edition, which according to Guinness, while Glen- The wedding reception for the
980 grammes (one pound, 10 ounc- his doctor. Stadnyk, who lives with his moth- will be released on September 17. day said Stadnyk's growth is said to couple and 20 guests was held at
es and two pounds, two ounces), "We realized there was such in- er in a tiny village in central Ukraine, "He was a bit of a recluse. He have been caused by a tumor on his an engineering plant in Barnstaple,
and are in incubators at the hospital, terest and excitement in these cat- told Reuters last year he doesn't looked after goats. Then the fame pituitary gland that stimulated over- where the groom works.
but are doing well, the report said. egories to do with height that it was "need glory. I just want a normal life that he got from being a Guinness production of a growth hormone. (Source: BBC)