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...barrier contraceptive that blocks sperm from passing from the vagina into the uterus. A thimble-shaped device made from rubber or plastic and measuring about 1 1/2 in. in diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...
Improving one's looks surgically has never been easier. A number of quick procedures can be done on an outpatient basis and require a short recovery period. Tops on the list, for women, is suction lipectomy, an operation developed in France and introduced in the U.S. in 1982. Also called liposuction, it entails the insertion under the skin of a hollow, blunt-ended tube that is attached to a high-powered suction machine that vacuums out the fat. The procedure can take 30 minutes to three hours, depending on how many problem areas are worked on. Removal of saddlebag thighs...
While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...
Given the buildup, the televised picking of the winning numbers could only have been a trifle anticlimactic. When a machine built of suction tubes and a transparent box full of numbered plastic balls picked the winning combination --14, 17, 22, 23, 30, 47--nothing happened to almost the entire audience except the abrupt popping of their balloons. The holders of the three winning tickets could not be identified for several days...
...many women, I wonder, would have abortions if they had to do it themselves, confronting the reality? How many women, if their tiny, living, little son or daughter were before their eyes, could tear off his or her limbs one-by-one and then the head (as in a suction abortion) or cut the little one to pieces with a knife (as in a D&C)? And how could anyone do this--or who makes the preposterous claim that any human being has a right to do this--say that he or she is pro-life? Michael Pakaluk '79 Philosophy...