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Couples who keep adding to a large family are called gatherers. "These people have big hearts," says Debra Smith, director of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse in Rockville, Maryland. "They think, 'One more plate on the table is not such a big deal. We have something to offer, and the child needs us.' " Farrow fits the definition. "But she's not a baby snatcher," Tremitiere says. "If she were, she'd have 50 kids and not just 11. She's very selective in the children she puts into her family, so that they fit in age-wise and with handicaps...
...question is cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular beating of the heart that can be deadly. Some cardiac arrhythmias bear the telltale signs of chaos. By delivering a series of precisely timed electrical pulses, four scientists at UCLA, the College of Wooster in Ohio and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland theorized that they might be able to tame unruly hearts...
Ivan ("Goat") Brown ('42) drove from Jacksonville, Florida, eager to spin his story about the Halloween night he loaded an outdoor privy on his old Plymouth and set it up in the school yard. Margaret Coffey McGrath ('29) of Chevy Chase, Maryland, laughed when she recounted cutting classes to attend a football game in a nearby town. "My mother drove us," she said, "but we got punished anyway. We had to memorize the preamble to the Constitution...
Immunocontraception has already been field-tested successfully with wild horses on Assateague Island, off Maryland. If this and other planned tests work equally well, the vaccine could become the method of choice for controlling booming deer populations. It could even, in theory, be used as a one-shot, long-lasting human contraceptive as well...
...from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer exists (a dance hall in Bethesda, Maryland). The new album's title tune sounds like a come-on to a quick affair until you listen to the verse: a poignant flashback of first love, first loss. Carpenter writes elegies for lives gone sour and places sorely missed. In these songs, love is - what we used...