Word: exceptionality
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...prohibits one very specific and very rare type of abortion procedure: Intact Dilation and Extraction (IDX). In IDX, a physician delivers all of a second-trimester fetus’s body except the head, punctures the base of the skull, and then suctions the skull contents before removing the head from the mother’s body...
...unwieldy way Harvard doles out student activity funds. Problem was, at least one of those groups, the quarterly magazine Diversity and Distinction, wasn’t currently facing financial hardship. They hadn’t been for as long as anyone currently in the College has been here. Yet, except for one point where the article says the magazine went into greater debt with each issue it published, no sentence can truly be called outright false. The writer never says Diversity and Distinction is facing financial hardship. The trouble with the article arose because the magazine was in financial straits...
...story about a city policeman exiled to an ostensibly law-abiding Gloucestershire town. Officer Nick Angel (Pegg) is just too good, too tough and righteous for his London superiors. So he's "promoted" to a post in Sandford, where the crime rate is minimal and everyone radiates bonhomie - except for some of Nick's fellow officers, who think the by-the-book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only...
...Kasdan’s screenwriting resume is pretty short. It includes one episode of the short-lived series “Freaks and Geeks” and...well, that’s about it, except for the new major motion picture, “In the Land of Women,” starring Meg Ryan and the O.C.’s Adam Brody. Don’t get too optimistic about this young writer, whose meager talent shot him from amateur TV writing to star-studded film writing fame too soon. Kasdan’s screenwriting and directorial debut...
...General Henry McMaster has warned that it would be "illegal and improper for the state to force a person seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image against her will." In Oklahoma, Governor Brad Henry this week vetoed legislation that would ban state facilities and employees from performing abortions, except in cases where the woman's life is at risk...