Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doctors were trying to help her become pregnant by using a fertilization method introduced in 1978. The so-called test-tube-baby technique bypasses the sealed passages by mating the wife's egg with the husband's sperm in a glass Petri dish. The resulting embryo is implanted in the woman's womb...
...experiment is expected to be followed by a birth in California this month that involves another kind of egg transfer between two women. The difference is that the California baby was conceived not in a Petri dish but in the body of the woman donating the egg. In the method used by Dr. John Buster and his team at Harbor/U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Torrance, a woman with healthy ovaries was artificially inseminated with sperm from the husband of an infertile woman. Five days after fertilization, the donor's uterus was flushed with a nutrient solution and the embryo...
...accounted for 41% of the company's sales. Last week Zenith announced that it would no longer sell Sony's machine under its brand name. Zenith thus joins companies such as Toshiba and NEC that have abandoned Sony's videotape system in favor of the VHS method developed by archrival Matsushita (1982 sales: $15.7 billion), which sells products in the U.S. under the National, Quasar and Panasonic brand names. Says one industry watcher in Tokyo: "Zenith's move means the demolition of the Sony-led Beta group...
...response to criticism that the case-study method doesn't offer a complete introduction to basic science, Berman said that students are forced to learn anything they don't already know. "It makes understanding basic science very important," he said...
...addition to philosophical objections that a strict case-study method is not comprehensive enough, Weinberg said he is concerned that those designing the curriculum are being rushed and will not have sufficient time to do it carefully...