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Under examination by Flanagan, Ward testified that in a stillborn fetus air cells in the lung are uniformly expanded with fluid secreted by the lungs...
...Stillborn Parables. Neil Young, on all the evidence, did not think much about any of this. Though the film has a reckless naivete that is intermittently charming, it is mostly an indulgence...
Journey Through the Past contains much documentary footage-of Young on tour, performing with Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Buffalo Springfield-intercut with stillborn fictional parables about a scholar who tromps through picturesque locations, searching for himself, or perhaps just for a guitar. There are intellectual asides (Stephen Stills ruminates that "some day words, and the reassurance of words, won't be necessary-soon"), social speculations (a discussion of concert ticket prices segues into a rendition of Find the Cost of Freedom), and heavy images (a needle stashed inside a Bible) of terror and salvation. There is also...
Ford's gimmicky WIN (Whip Inflation Now) voluntary program was a stillborn loser. A lot of WIN buttons were flashed around the White House, inspiring ribald imitations elsewhere, but in fact, from a President it was singularly inappropriate advice to stop spending just when sales were dropping in a stalled economy. Henry Ford II, for one, informed Ford of his error...
Doctors have long withheld lifesaving medical support from grossly malformed infants, allowing them to die at birth and often only telling the parents that their babies were stillborn. But public discussion of this unpleasant alternative is a relatively new phenomenon. Doctors and hospital officials across the U.S. are now openly acknowledging that there are cases in which all concerned agree that the best-and perhaps even the most humane-treatment for a severely deformed infant is none...