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Shira Schoenberg -- Massachusetts should expand education and screening for serious newborn illness -- The virus cCMV can cause hearing loss in children.

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Why Gish Jen talks to the dead -- The writer's new novel "Bad Bad Girl" blends truth and fiction to dissect the cultural divide between mother and daughter.

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