Word: birth
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ADAPTATION-NEXT are two one-acters directed by satirist Elaine May. Adaptation, Miss May's own play, is cleverly staged like a TV contest, with Gabriel Dell playing the adaptation game from birth to death. James Coco gives an enormously resourceful performance as a middle-aged man undergoing a humiliating induction examination in Terrence McNally's Next...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
...point there could be no disagreement. By far the commonest cause of premature death is premature birth, the reason for which is usually unknown except in cases of maternal illness. Prematurity as now defined is not necessarily birth before an elapsed gestation time of 280 days but birth, at any time, with a weight of 5¼ Ib. or less. For preemies, the first 28 days are especially hazardous. To care for them, University of Louisville Pediatrician Billy Andrews has devised an incubator setup so complex that medical students call it his physiology lab. Andrews maintains an around-the-clock...
...anesthetics and other drugs for the mother's (and their own) convenience and comfort, he said, they must improve surveillance of the infant during delivery. This means that they must use new techniques of sampling the baby's blood and monitoring its heart rate even before birth...
...should also be the obstetrician's responsibility, added Adamsons, to minimize the danger that the baby will be deprived of oxygen during labor and delivery. At present, he said, 20% to 25% of all U.S. babies suffer some oxygen deficiency during birth; 3% to 4% are "severely afflicted" and may develop cerebral palsy or other handicaps...