Word: ivans
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...study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors. Untreated acute appendicitis can be fatal to both the mother and fetus. Acute appendicitis is a rare condition, occurring in less than one percent of pregnant women and in about the same percentage of the general population, said Ivan Pedrosa, an assistant professor at HMS who worked on the study published in Consumer Health Daily. According to Pedrosa, many women experience abdominal pain while pregnant. Though the likelihood of a woman having appendicitis is low, doctors need a way to test for the condition, Pedrosa said...
...world's best ceramic artists - the beauty of this exhibition is in showing the earthiness of her inspiration. Born in the Victorian goldmining town of Ballarat in 1935, this daughter of an engineer and craft teacher naturally, it seems, sought salvation from the ground. As an apprentice to Ivan McMeekin at his Mittagong pottery in the '50s, she became as expert as a geologist at analyzing the mineral contents of clay. Later, at the studios she set up in France and Tasmania, she was forever "digging and scrounging and carting and milling and sieving clays and rocks and ashes," Hanssen...
Christakis explains that the human mind?especially the mind of a baby?is driven by what Ivan Pavlov (of the famous dog) called the orienting reflex. When a baby is confronted with a novel sight or sound, he or she can't help focusing on it. By rapidly changing colors, sounds and motions, videos for children effectively force a baby's brain to stay at attention. If his or her gaze wanders, the action quickly rivets it back to the screen...
...guard; in a decision that could end a court battle dating back to the 1970s; by a federal judge who rejected his claim that he would be tortured if sent back to his native Ukraine; in Cleveland, Ohio. Demjanjuk was convicted in 1988 by an Israeli court of being "Ivan the Terrible," but was cleared and had his U.S. citizenship restored. His citizenship was again withdrawn when, in 2002, new evidence convinced a federal court that he was a different camp guard...
...guard; in a decision that could end a court battle dating back to the 1970s; by a U.S. judge who rejected his claim that he would be tortured if sent back to his native Ukraine; in Cleveland, Ohio. Demjanjuk was convicted in 1988 by an Israeli court of being "Ivan the Terrible," but he was cleared and had his U.S. citizenship restored. His citizenship was again withdrawn when, in 2002, new evidence convinced a U.S. court that he was a different camp guard...