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...Then "Get Back" starts chugging its intro and quickly explodes. Sights and sounds bombard the audience: skyrockets on two large projection screens, silhouettes of the group and a frenetic milling of the cast, including bungee-cord duos (the boy above, the girl bouncing below). It's a rambunctious cue for nostalgia, for emotional flashback. Love calls on the audience, and the Beatles as well, to take a return trip "to where you once belonged...
...stuck to her arm. It gradually emerges, and we see it?s a small homunculus named Yamada (as in "Ya mada?s so ugly, she looks like a bloodsucker"). But the bit about a girl asked by a guy in a yellow fur suit to pull on his umbilical cord? on that one I was with the girl, who says, "Honestly, I haven?t the foggiest." The prankster and his two cohorts shrugs off her bafflement by explaining, "Some days people laugh, some days they don?t. Today?s skit was adult-oriented...
...treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo. Doctors at the hospital determined that Jonathan had meningitis, a life-threatening but treatable inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Françoise Ngave, a nurse in the children's ward, said, "If he stays here, he can live," but his mother had little hope left...
...threw my head back, my feet came around, and I landed at a 45-degree angle. [The doctors] said if I had landed 1 centimeter to the left or right, I would have severed my spinal cord and drowned. What I did do was shatter two vertebrae [in the middle of my back], and they shattered into tiny little pieces. I felt the explosion in my stomach, the vertebrae shot right into my organs...
Current fetal heart monitors send an ultrasound signal into a woman’s body and measure bounceback from the umbilical cord, a procedure that is cumbersome as well as “invasive and indirect,” Orenstein said. LONO’s technology tracks the fetal heart rate itself using acoustics to create a passive, safer, and much more mobile device than traditional Doppler ultrasound...