Gay couples in Southern states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are more likely to be raising children than their counterparts on the West Coast, in New York and in New England.

例如，与居住在纽约，新英格兰地区等西海岸城市的同性夫妇相比，居住在南部阿肯色州，路易斯安那，密西西比及得克萨斯州的同性夫妇抚养孩子的几率更高。

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On a fine afternoon at the Texas State Fair, a ringmaster encouraged a gaggle of children to flap their arms like butterfly wings.

在一个晴朗的下午，德州博览会上的一个表演者让一群孩子像蝴蝶一样挥动双臂。

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There is a long and remarkable article in the current New Yorker about a man who was executed in Texas in 2004 for deliberately setting a fire that killed his three small children.

在最新一期的《纽约客》上，赫然有篇关于一个被判死刑的男人的文章。2004年，这个男人因为被指控故意纵火烧死了自己三个孩子而在德克萨斯州被判处死刑。

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Rashmi Shetgiri is a pediatrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center Dallas.

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She has been a patient at Texas Children's since she was five months old and had an open-heart "arterial switch" to repair the problem in 1991 when she was 11.

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Several epidemiological studies showed there was no significant difference between people who take supplements and those who do not, said Anding, a registered dietitian and director of sports nutrition at Texas Children's Hospital.

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"This gives us a reference set of genes and microbes from healthy individuals, " said James Versalovic, director of the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the project.

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