Word: infantability
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...infant has a condition so severe as to be an immediate threat to life itself, there is now virtually no lower limit to the age at which surgeons will move in. Dr. Gross has operated on 300 premature babies, one of whom weighed only11 Ib. 14 oz. Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley. 42, another bold vanguardsman in this field, regularly schedules four operations a day. By now, he has done 450 major operations on infants less than a year old. He will put even these tiny patients on the heart-lung machine if necessary, though he prefers...
...cans, his rows of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Troy Donahue. He stencils them onto the canvas by the silk-screen process, then touches in the colors. Though the result can be excruciatingly monotonous, the apparently senseless repetition does have the jangling effect of the syllabic babbling of an infant-not Dada, but dadadadadadadada. In his own way, Warhol is perhaps the truest son of the age of automation. "Paintings are too hard," he says. "The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn...
Obstetricians have long noted that babies suffering from such troubles either were delivered by Caesarean section, or were premature infants, or born of diabetic mothers. But in the A.M.A. Journal, a group of pediatricians* from the University of California suggests that the most important factor is the time at which the obstetrician clamps and cuts the infant's umbilical cord...
There are sound reasons, say the doctors, for a slowdown in cutting the umbilical cord. Delay allows a gradual change from fetal to regular circulation without putting stress on blood vessels in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. The carefree manner in which the newly born infant is "disconnected" from his mother, concludes the report, "is in sharp contrast to the meticulous care with which the thoracic surgeon separates his patient from the heart-lung machine...
...early as spring 1776, France was secretly aiding the infant U.S. against Britain with money and munitions. Early in 1778, the Sultan of Morocco impetuously decided to recognize the U.S. Government and, because of communications difficulty, tried to do so through a French emissary. France slipped in ahead, recognizing the U.S. on Feb. 6, 1778 ... Feb. 20 for Morocco, which, because of prior intent, still likes to think it holds first place...