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...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...
Kaifu's proposal, the Japanese decided, went beyond all bounds of the taboo on military missions abroad, and the proposal was stillborn. His new idea, of rescuing refugees with C-130s, may also get shot down -- though he insists that he is legally free to send them without Diet approval...
...Triumph larger than Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Subway stations are opulent, with fireworks-shaped chandeliers, granite pillars, 250-ft. mosaics, and marble passageways and platforms. Yet many of the imperial structures have a slightly wistful, wasteful air: the enormous 150,000-seat May First Stadium, built in the stillborn hope of a role as co-host of the 1988 Summer Olympics, for example; or the 20,000 new apartments along Kwangbok (liberation) Street that were built to accommodate foreigners but remain largely uninhabited...