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...caesarean section, employed in an attempt to reduce the number of these births, is removing the fetus from the mother's body with forceps or by means of a suction cup or vacuum extractor. These procedures, the article reported, can be traumatic for the fetus and cause skull fractures, shoulder injuries, retinal hemorrhages and bleeding in the brain...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Affiliates Criticize Move to Limit Caesareans | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

That's even older than the celebrated Lucy, and comes from a time when humans still had many apelike characteristics. Best of all, this skeleton is almost complete; it even comes with a skull. There is no need to mix and match different specimens to guess what the entire creature looked like (Lucy, for example, was only 40% complete). Once the skeleton is fully excavated in a year or so, experts should be able to pin down the relative sizes of different body parts and see just which of the creature's features were apelike and which were human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: A New Key to the Family Tree | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

There was no stopping the Muslims of Pembangunan I on Sunday, Nov. 22. By the end of the day, six Christians had been hunted down, and the alleyways of the subdivision were spattered with blood. Jimmy Siahae had a fractured skull, lungs punctured in three places and more than 30 open wounds on his body in what Dr. Zulhasmar Syamsul, who did the autopsy, described as a "vicious and sadistic attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Descent Into Madness | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Waldergreen Associates is a small, recently-formed consulting company with a diverse approach to solving management problems worldwide. Its founder and president, Robert Waldergreen, dropped out of Columbia University two months before graduation to start Waldergreen Associates, after the antenna which had been implanted in his skull by alien voyagers began picking up signals sent from beyond the solar system. Thousands of light years away in the star system Krion, a fleet of heavily-armed space cruisers began their slow, intergalactic march towards our sun. If these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: from the circular file Of OCS | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

EVEL KNIEVEL once fractured his skull and pelvis jumping over fountains at Caesar's Palace. Last week his leg was injured when his parked motorcycle fell over and pinned him to the ground. Knievel, 60, was rescued by neighbors who heard his pleas for help. Though he complained of leg pain and a scraped elbow, Knievel refused to be taken to a hospital. Even a glutton for pain is not impervious to a bruised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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