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...freezer that slowly lowered their temperature, and then thawed them just as gradually. The plan seemed to be a good one, but time and again it failed--just as it had failed for other scientists who had tried similar methods. On one trial, however, the Atlanta team happened to extract the eggs on the eighth day of the hormone regimen rather than the 10th. When these younger, presumably hardier ova were frozen and thawed, they emerged from the process intact. "It was more a matter of timing than anything else," says Michael Tucker, scientific director...
...suit, B.U. asked the court to order the cessation of sales by the companies and extract punitive damages...
...center of the debate is a medical procedure in which a doctor partly delivers a late-term fetus and then uses a suction device to extract brain tissue before removing the rest of the body. Advocates on either side dispute why these abortions are performed and how many are done each year. Even doctors cannot agree: the American Medical Association supports a ban, while the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists opposes...
...page transcript paints a frightening picture of how clearly America's top officials could visualize an all-out thermonuclear exchange ? or, as they euphemistically put it, "general war." Sample extract: "There's bound to be a reprisal from the Soviet Union," says Kennedy. "Going in and taking Berlin by force. Which leaves me only one alternative, which is to fire nuclear weapons, which is a hell of an alternative...
Once the emergency units arrived, it took them 30 to 45 minutes to extract Diana from the vehicle and stabilize her with intubation, oxygen and treatment for shock. At 1:18 a.m. she was placed in an ambulance. At the doctor's insistence, the ambulance proceeded slowly so as not to aggravate the injuries. Thus it took some 40 minutes to reach the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital instead of the usual 10 minutes. On arrival at 2:05 a.m., the princess was in cardiac arrest. Doctors opened her chest and found massive internal bleeding from the ruptured vein. Although they sutured...