Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world only as Baby Doe was born in Bloomington, Ind. He had an incomplete esophagus and Down's syndrome, which causes moderate to severe mental retardation. Thanks to advances in neonatal medicine, surgeons could ensure Baby Doe's survival by attaching his esophagus to his stomach, but nothing could be done to prevent retardation. His parents were confronted with an agonizing dilemma: to assent to an operation that would save the life of a child who could be hopelessly retarded, or to allow him to die of starvation. Against the wishes of their pediatrician and hospital, they chose...
...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
...secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis attributed his recovery from emergency stomach surgery in 1981 to Shawn's loving support. Sudden death, however, has haunted the singer's life: a three-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool in 1962; another son, his 19-year-old namesake, was killed in a 1973 auto accident; and his fourth wife...
...body of Aquino was lying face down on the pavement, blood spurting from a large wound in the back of his neck. Another body, dressed in a blue mechanic's uniform, lay face up a few feet away as a soldier pumped 16 rounds into his stomach at close range. Two other soldiers picked up the limp body of Aquino, loaded it into the van and sped away. Aquino was pronounced dead on arrival at Ft. Bonifacio Army Hospital...
...study involved 1,266 male patients suffering from unstable angina, an extremely painful condition that is often a harbinger of heart attacks. About half the men (625) took one dose of aspirin daily in the form of an Alka-Seltzer solution (used because it is less upsetting to the stomach than plain aspirin). The other patients were given a fizzy placebo...