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...HEAR THIS A new, portable device called Audx enables doctors and nurses to quickly assess a newborn's hearing. Audx works by transmitting sound waves into a baby's ear and measuring whether the ear produces any vibrations in response...
...also fair game--although the stars tend to fight back. George Clooney urged a boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
Early Sunday morning, Aug. 22, 1993, I opened my front door to find a beautiful, breathing newborn baby. Like Quasimodo, he had been brought to the church with the knowledge that he would be lifted up into life. Memory of that remarkable moment makes it especially painful for me to read about babies who are not given any chance for life. (The Rev.) RAYMOND MICHAEL UTZ St. Susanna Church Pittsburgh...
...truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on the hillside. While Duane tours the scene in his pickup, his son Brad works from the saddle of a quarter horse. They stop to watch as a cow lies down, her calf beginning to emerge. Finally, with perfect timing and great effort, the cow clambers to her feet and lets gravity...
...been more than five years since a ghastly plague passed through Brownsville, Texas, crippling and killing dozens of newborn babies. From 1988 to '92, 25 children were born with the spinal-nerve defect called spina bifida; more than 30 others had almost no brain at all--a related and fatal neural defect called anencephaly. "It would look like somebody took a knife and just whacked the top of their head off," said Brownsville physician Manuel Guajardo...