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...fifth month, the child’s head is so large that it is not possible to completely deliver the baby – so the physician delivers a baby to the point where only the head remains inside the womb but then punctures the back of the skull to remove the brain. Despite the gruesomeness of this procedure, there are still people who believe that a woman should have the right to choose to have a partial-birth abortion. They argue that this procedure is rare, it only accounts for 1% of abortions performed. Indeed, 2,200 partial-birth...
WOUNDED. BOB WOODRUFF, 44, a co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, and his cameraman, DOUG VOGT, 46; when a roadside bomb exploded near the Iraqi armored vehicle in which they were riding while reporting a story on Iraqi soldiers; in Baghdad. Woodruff suffered a fractured skull, a broken collarbone and shrapnel wounds. Vogt had less serious head and body injuries...
...instance, one self-identified English professor from Wisconsin wrote, “To G: My pity. I truly doubt that you could read this. In fact, I truly doubt that you have opposable thumbs. Density: Off-scale; skull has its own gravitational field...
...artist. Unlike his celebrated compatriots Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer and choreographer, he was a fixture in Manhattan...
...Three years ago, somebody gave me a skull that was supposed to be his," says Coleman, who recently retired. It was a nice try. "It had a prayer burn on the forehead" the ex-agent says. "Zawahiri has a very distinctive one on his forehead...