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...male and female soldiers is so improbably complete that everyone showers together in the wide-open locker room. Sexual liaisons do occur among unit members, but cease en flagrante when the battle-siren sounds. Not a character in the movie questions any of this, and the military functions like clockwork...
...households structured around the inconsistent needs of young children, nothing runs like clockwork...
...Wednesday, Bobbi was partly anesthetized; 18 minutes later, the boy nicknamed Hercules (he'd been supporting the weight of all his siblings in the womb) was lifted out. "There was a lot of pressure," says anesthesiologist Dr. Dirk Brom, "but it all went like clockwork." Bobbi was quiet, Brom recalls, but "there were tears in her eyes as her babies were being born." Before she left the operating room, Bobbi was reportedly given a tubal ligation...
...tapes, and that he was prepared to join the current White House occupants in their fund-raising efforts should Al Gore make his expected run for the nation's highest office. "He's really a neat guy," a smiling Thompson said of the Veep. "Sanka, anyone?" Watch A Clockwork Orange (1971). Twice. Lest it happen...
...spinal cord assemble themselves in a series of tightly choreographed steps. Nature is the dominant partner during this phase of development, but nurture plays a vital supportive role. Changes in the environment of the womb--whether caused by maternal malnutrition, drug abuse or a viral infection--can wreck the clockwork precision of the neural assembly line. Some forms of epilepsy, mental retardation, autism and schizophrenia appear to be the results of developmental processes gone awry...