Word: child
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Lindahl also said that the mother claims to have been abused as a child and raised the issue of whether the mother may have prompted the children to make false allegations about their grandparents...
...French parents were distraught and desperate. Soon after their firstborn child died at seven months of a rare form of immune deficiency, they received more heartbreaking news. Their second baby, due in August of last year, was suffering from the same, nearly always fatal hereditary disorder, called bare lymphocyte syndrome. They could have aborted the child or allowed doctors to try the same kind of white-blood-cell transplant after birth that had failed with their firstborn. But the couple, who prefer to remain anonymous, chose a historic third option: to let their child receive the first ever transplant...
...experiment took place without publicity last June, and was only recently described at a medical meeting in Paris. The operation was performed when the child, David, was a 30-week-old fetus. So far, the results have been remarkable. Though he has been confined since birth to a germ-free flexible plastic bubble in order to protect him from the outside world, David, now seven months old, appears to have an immune system that is on the mend. If all goes well, David could leave his sterile prison by summer's end. Though his survival is not assured, the experiment...
...naval attache helped bring about the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government, sex scandals have been as absorbing a British pastime as royal weddings. Six years ago, Trade Secretary Cecil Parkinson was forced to resign when it became public knowledge that his mistress was about to bear his illegitimate child. Sixteen years ago, Air Force Minister Lord Lambton lost his job when photographers caught him in bed with two prostitutes. As the tabloids breathlessly chronicled the latest ado, political circles in London fell into that giddy state that only a really juicy scandal can produce. Even a former Deputy Prime...
...constitutional framers no more had in mind the socially psychotic prospect of every Tom, Dick and Harriet with a barnful of MAC-10s, Saturday night specials and AK-47s than, in writing the First Amendment, they had in mind the protection of child-porn video, which did not exist in the 18th century either. Nowhere does the Constitution say the right to bear arms means the right to bear any or all arms. Which arms is the real issue. At present, firepower has outstripped the law's power to contain it within rational limits...