Word: sac
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...Einhorn of Indiana University, who treated Lance Armstrong, "we have looked at several risk factors, and the only one that's really been proved is cryptorchidism." In plain English, that means undescended testicles. In a male fetus, the testicles normally develop inside the abdomen and descend into the scrotal sac before birth. In some cases, though, one (and sometimes both) of the testicles stays inside the body. The laggard normally drops into place in the child's first year of life, though surgery is sometimes needed to help it along...
Thus life hobbles on in a still bleeding, often broken country in which every moral certainty was exiled long ago, and a visitor finds himself lost in a lightless labyrinth of sorts, in which every path leads to a cul-de-sac. On paper at least, this is a time of hope for ill-starred Cambodia. Last year Pol Pot finally died in his jungle hideout, and just before the new year, two of the last three Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, turned themselves in for a while to the government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer...
...answer, a team of British researchers found that by correlating the results with their program they were able to identify 85 percent of Down's syndrome cases with only a 1 percent false positive rate. Amniocentesis provides a definitive answer, but the procedure involves withdrawing fluid from the fetal sac using a needle, which triggers miscarriages in 1 percent of such procedures...
John F. Kennedy, Jr., who died in a plane crash earlier this week, has served on the Institute of Politics' Senior Advisory Committee (SAC) for 15 years. He was also expected to be chair of the committee next fall, according to the committee's current chair, former Senator John C. Culver...
Nina S. Sawyer'01, this year's CatholicStudents Association SAC representative, praisesCounter as a cordial, committed and intelligentleader...