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...more likely to produce healthy youngsters. Improved monitoring techniques also favor surgery. Because machines can reveal almost instantly if the baby's heartbeat or position in the womb is abnormal, many doctors now automatically take the caesarean route when difficulties are encountered. As a result, risky breech births-in which the baby's head is not pointing downward and must be manipulated with instruments-are easily avoided...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...
...elections come out, and it's not uncommon for an election to be uncontested. Maybe this is changing: One candidate for the Freshman Council last year went so far as to buy an advertisement in The Crimson to boost his campaign. He was accordingly disqualified, but not even this breech of political ethics gave much sign of denting his constituents' indifference. Presumably they had their eyes on bigger game...
...time, environmentalists apparently will be on their own in fighting the project. But eventually it may come back to the University, and at that point someone will have to decide whether to put forth the final battle or accede to what John Stillman, another descendent, has called a "creeping breech of trust...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...