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...fraternal twins. Because the woman, who had never before given birth, was 40 years old, she underwent amniocentesis in the 17th week of pregnancy. Guided by ultrasound scans, doctors inserted a needle through the woman's abdomen and into the separate amniotic sacs, withdrawing a sample of the fluid that cushioned each of the developing children. The fluid contained cells shed by the fetuses, and these were analyzed for genetic abnormalities. The samples revealed that both twins were boys, but only one showed the normal number of chromosomes. The other had an extra chromosome, which indicated Down...
...missions progressed, these initial problems usually disappeared, only to be replaced by more insidious ones. Normally, under the tug of the earth's gravity, the blood and other fluids pool in the legs. But in space, these fluids are distributed more evenly, in effect creating fluid surpluses in key areas like the heart. The body reacts swiftly. Apparently thinking it has more blood than it needs, it reduces production both of red blood cells and disease-fighting lymphocytes, making the space travelers more vulnerable to infections. (The cosmonauts found themselves spending more and more time scrubbing the spacecraft...
...good deal of the popularity of Pop art, as the late Harold Rosenberg pointed out some years ago, partook of "the astonishment of Moliere's character on learning that he has been speaking prose" all his life. Suddenly, there was the commercial vernacular of America, that amniotic fluid in which every collector had been nurtured, right there on the museum wall. And the curious paradox was that, in Lichtenstein's case, the fluid -those cartoon images of teen-agers and Korean War jets-was transparent. After a while the imagery hardly...
There were about 20 men...all in exactly the same nightmarish state: their faces wholly burned, their eyes sockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks...their mouths were swollen, pus-covered wounds, which they could not bear to stretch enough to admit the spout of a teapot...
...also knows his writing. As the author of a published novel, LeBaron is a talented narrator with a gift for fluid glibness. Thus, he seems like the perfect person to write an expose on the training of doctors--the most criticized profession in this country besides politics...