Word: newborn
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Females flop onto the smoother ice to bear their offspring. The newborn pups, plump bundles of snow-white fur, with limpid dark eyes and chic whiskers, spend a full month bleating helplessly on the ice and fattening on the richest maternal milk produced by any mammal. At the end of the month, when their fur darkens, they are ready for the water...
...befits a huge industry, U.S. medicine has an impressive plant, and many of its facilities are indeed outstanding. In research and medical technology, the U.S. amazes and leads the world. A newborn baby with a defective heart can probably get the best care at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, which operates an elaborate unit exclusively for pediatric cardiology. For surgery on such a baby's heart, U.S. surgeons are preeminent. So are the surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe...
Dependent Animal. In its social organization, the rat makes a poor human analogue. The newborn rat, for instance, gets a minimum of parental care and is self-sufficient within just 22 days. The young human is the most cared-for of all the world's mammals. His dependency can last as long as 22 years...
...primary objectives of the laboratory will be to study the functioning of the reproductive system in order to find better methods of birth control. Research will extend from the development of eggs and sperm to the newborn...
...engineers came up with a three-part design consisting of a quick-drying inner lining of soft rayon-like material, a middle layer of absorbent tissue wadding, and an outer sheet of waterproof polyethylene. By way of acknowledging that babies differ widely, the designers made Pampers in three sizes-"newborn," "daytime" and "extra strength" for overnight...