Word: eggs
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...women's groups in the early 1970s, when abortion was $ illegal in most states, menstrual extraction is a variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an embedded fertilized egg, is suctioned out by pumping a syringe attached to the tubing. Proponents of the procedure insist that it is safe...
...cursory instruction will lead to medical complications. "There's no way that watching a video and seeing someone demonstrate this is going to make self-help procedures safe," declares gynecologist Michael Burnhill of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. Possible dangers: missing the tiny fertilized egg, lacerating the cervix, perforating the uterus, and spreading bacterial infection...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever get a gun, I'll blow your bleedin' brains out," will sob on her wedding day, "I want...
Many investors are influencing corporate behavior by putting their money where their morals are. Socially conscious investment funds now hold nearly $500 billion, up from $40 billion in 1984, according to Gordon Davidson, head of the Social Investment Forum in Boston. Much of this nest egg belongs to pension funds like the $53 billion California Public Employees Retirement System. Their increasingly activist stance has strengthened the hand of the many religious groups that have waged an 18-year fight with corporations, seeking to influence policy through proxy battles at shareholders' meetings. Harrison Goldin, the comptroller of New York City...