Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 watch on the preemies by taping up each one with yards of plastic tubing and electrodes that monitor the heart rate, the blood's oxygen concentration and temperature. Forced Uphill. Among preemies, a common cause of death is formation...
...WISH people were willing to admit how much they are a chemical machine. I think it is confusing to set off all that comes as pills and capsules and call those things "drugs." By "drugs" we usually mean a chemical influence that changes the way we feel and hence how we think...
...Professor Sacks also introduced a resolution requesting the hotel management to call the police to remove the intruders. After considerable discussion, the meeting voted to table this motion and then to adjourn...
...CENTRAL feature of this devastating carnival is a game devised by Michael in which each person places a phone call to the one person "he has truly loved." As the characters take their turns, they simultaneously expose secret reserves of despair almost unbearable to watch...
...Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gray corpse"). He places his final hopes on the possibility that even seemingly straight Alan is in reality a "closet queer," unhappy like the rest of them. In the game and the play, it is Alan's phone call that provides the final shock in a series of shattering revelations...