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Legal Status. Recognizing the difficulty of special legislation for these babies, Watson proposes a redefinition of the legal status of all newborn infants...
...public execution of the Bambara wild-woman who had thrust a needle into the skull of her newborn baby. They had tied her to the doorpost of one of the huts and coated her naked body with molasses. It took the manioc ants several hours to finish her off, and all that time, her eyes blazing like torches, she had screamed insults at the masters...
...practice is a sort of selective method of birth control. And it is not so illegal at that. Nobody knows for sure how many deformed or "undesirable" newborn infants conveniently "die" immediately after birth...
...very "edge" of the universe; that possibility got renewed support only last week when astronomers reported finding a quasar that may be as distant as 12 billion light-years from earth. A dissenting minority, including Fred Hoyle, offers another startling view: quasars are nearby objects, possibly newborn, in which supposedly in violable constants such as the acceleration of gravity are not constant but continually changing. Then there are pulsars, the collapsed cadavers of giant stars that give off extraordinary pulses of radiation, and kindred black holes, which are totally invisible but act like cosmic vacuum cleaners in sweeping...
...growth of a massive thymic tumor, Good began to speculate about the link between the thymus and agammaglobulinemia, a disease caused by a deficiency or lack of the major antibodies. He?together with others in his laboratories?conducted a series of experiments in which he removed the thymus from newborn rabbits. The results of the test?all of the animals failed to develop normal immune systems?led to recognition of the thymus' role in the development of immunity...