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Back to Basics The only way to decrease the rate of Cesarean sections is to go back and teach residents the art of obstetrics, which includes the proper use of the forceps and the vacuum extractor [The Trouble with Repeat Cesareans, April 27]. We should also stop the interference of lawyers in the management of deliveries by making litigation very difficult. During the 1960s the institution with the lowest rate of cesareans was considered the best for training residents. Neonatologists agree that increasing the rate of cesareans does not necessarily mean better babies. Fayez Suidan M.D., AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT...
...From 2000 to 2008, he served on the board of the state-controlled firm Gazprom, Russia's largest company and the world's largest extractor of natural gas. The company has frequently become embroiled in payment disputes with Ukraine, which relies on Gazprom for its gas supply...
...reused before being donated to biodiesel-fuel depots. Even the leftover food on students' plates will do double-duty. Food scraps and biodegradable napkins will be washed into a contraption called the pulper, where they will get, well, pulped. The resulting slurry will be pumped to the first-floor extractor, in which it is dehydrated and turned into a material resembling sawdust. The remaining "food dust" is then dumped into a biodegradable trash bag to be consolidated in a trash compactor, then hauled to a commercial facility that sends the scraps to a composting yard...
...alternative to a caesarean section, employed in an attempt to reduce the number of these births, is removing the fetus from the mother's body with forceps or by means of a suction cup or vacuum extractor. These procedures, the article reported, can be traumatic for the fetus and cause skull fractures, shoulder injuries, retinal hemorrhages and bleeding in the brain...
...peddling merchandise on the sidewalks: "Folks, I'm gonna show you the Morris Metric Slicer. Two dollars is the price on the box, but forget the two dollars. I'm talking about one dollar, and I'm throwing in the onion slicer and the juice extractor." When Ed talked, the folks listened. And when they listened, they usually bought...