Word: stillborns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone in the mood to negotiate in preparation for the Group of Seven summit meeting next week. It is unlikely that Miyazawa's lame-duck government will offer any major new trade concessions or initiatives to help boost the world economy, increasing chances that the Tokyo summit will be stillborn...
...their prayers, some Operation Rescue forces returned the insults, and on Tuesday produced the ultimate visual ammunition: Schenck displayed with outstretched arms a 20-week fetus to pro-choice hecklers, a doll-like apparition that the minister said was aborted but which the county medical . examiner later said was stillborn. All this made the sheriff of Erie County, Thomas Higgins, 62, feel nostalgic about the antiwar demonstrations of the '60s. "The humor is not there anymore," he said. "This is a kind of gutter ugliness...
...California the lives of the freed condors will be "managed." Stillborn calves left on mountains might keep the birds from flying to flatland sources of toxic food, and moving the carrion around will force natural foraging behavior. Biologists assume that intensive care is temporary. "Right now, we are this species' surrogate parents," says Robert Measta, head of U.S. Fish and Wildlife condor operations. "In the old days, adult condors did this job." With luck, someday they will again...
...past, says Avery, high numbers of mothers with poorly controlled diabetes resulting in stillborn infants caused many obstetricians to utilize Caeserian sections in delivery...
What happened, however, was that many of these infants were born with immature lungs that did not produce enough surfactant. By performing autopsies on a large number of stillborn infants as well as those who died of RDS after delivery, Avery found that the lack of surfactant was due to the high blood glucose of these infants...