Word: methods
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...hysterotomy is a method of abortion similar in technique to Caesarean section. In the hysterotomy, however, the fetus is separated from the placenta while in the womb and soon dies deprived of oxygen. Flanagan had defined life in his prosecution as the state when the fetus breathes and maintains a heartbeat independent of the mother. Late in the hearing, though, he suggested that Edelin could be convicted for manslaughter even if the alleged victim had only a "potential" for life...
Personal Efforts. Ford's method of making major decisions has scarcely changed from his days as House minority leader, as was shown in the week preceding his economic message. He makes dozens of telephone calls to expose himself to many points of view and holds frequent meetings with his advisers. According to one participant, Ford "would come in and out of the meetings. He would ask for more information or ask for a certain person's views-for example, what did [Environmental Protection Agency Administrator] Russell Train think about something in the environment area. Or he might...
...long enough for a number of late nights' reading, and interesting enough so it is hard to put down. Whitten has written wittily, except for his embarrassing post-coital dialogue, which runs along the line of `"Whew,' she sighed." He would have done better to follow the traditional method of ending the chapter...
...Leonardo proposed to carry out this unprecedented and technically almost unimaginable project has long been a mystery. But his Madrid notes set down the method in full detail. He invented a revolutionary system of doing it in one piece, designing special furnaces and bracing systems and winches for it, and even a way of casting it buried upside down in the marshy Milanese soil without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because...
Though Leonardo was, as everyone knew, chemist and physicist, mechanical engineer, musician, architect, anatomist and botanist as well as painter, it is not wholly possible to draw a dividing line between art and science in his work. Painting was to him a method of inquiry into the world's structure; it was the empiricism of sight itself. He tended to regard it as the queen of the sciences. His scientific work (on water, wind and their catastrophic powers, for instance) was presented in drawings of ravishing subtlety. Their purely descriptive intent in no way affects their aesthetic power...