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Word: inserts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exceptionally delicate procedure, performed some 15 to 20 weeks into the pregnancy, is done under a local anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testing Fetuses | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...publish Third World organizations' newsletters free of charge and insert them into The Crimson for delivery...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Third World Groups, Crimson Meet | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Crimson agreed Saturday to print a second apology concerning a picture of two Black students which ran March 1, 1980 on the paper's editorial page. The Crimson also agreed to give increased and accurate coverage to Third World events, capitalize the ethnic names of Third World peoples, insert the Third World organizations' newsletters on terms to be discussed, and offer the opinion page on an occasional basis for Third World students to present the Third World perspective...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Third World Groups, Crimson Meet | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...unadulterated language and a natural environment. The environment is still natural--at times this production oozes Woodstock--but Prince has trampled on some of the stories, adding characterizations that some of his actors can't handle and moving back and forth from the narrate-your-own-action to insert-a-narrator form. Story Theatre asks the audience to suspend itself for a couple of hours and asks a small group of talented actors to make eight different characters in ten different tales believable. If it looks simple to do this show right, it's not, and Prince's style makes...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Story Already Told | 3/13/1980 | See Source »

...carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal substance. But does that relieve doctors of their responsibility? Not really, say the authors. They point out that a doctor must still prescribe the drug, supervise the lethal injection and pronounce the prisoner dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death Row | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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