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...road with David (Gary Merrill), her elitist curmudgeon of a husband, who openly reviles her siblings and their menfolk as "morons." Naturally, each sister cuts through the Gordian knot of close relations only to find it intact - even if more loosely binding. However, Homer amusingly severs his umbilical cord...
...dead body of an infant strangled by its umbilical cord has been found in a wastebasket. The wastebasket belongs to Agnes (Mia Dillon), a nun of a contemplative order. There is no reason to doubt that Agnes gave birth to the child in her room and then murdered...
...exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They...
...victims, age one to 82, died during or soon after assaults with a variety of weapons, including a cane, a coat hanger, a belt, an electric cord and a shoe. Yet the physical injuries they suffered should not have killed them. Then, what did? The disparate group was culled by Pathologists Marilyn Cebelin and Charles Hirsch from a list of 497 assault cases that occurred in Cleveland between 1950 and 1979. After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar...
...minister steps into the pulpit. In the pews sit a college student there against his will, a banker who twice contemplated suicide that week, a contractor on the take, a pregnant girl who feels life stir within her, a teacher hiding his homosexuality. "The preacher pulls the little cord that turns on the lectern light and deals out his note cards like a riverboat gambler. The stakes have never been higher. Two minutes from now he may have lost his listeners completely to their own thoughts, but at this moment he has them in the palm of his hand...