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...than atmospheric pressure, and this keeps the lung expanded; when the chest wall is pierced, air enters and forces the lung to collapse. To reinflate it, doctors made two small incisions, one just below the collarbone and the other between the seventh and eighth ribs, and inserted tubes to suction off air and any blood that might have accumulated from damage to the heart, lungs or major blood vessels in the chest. About two pints of blood spilled out. Immediately doctors started transfusing blood, using O negative, a blood type any person can accept. (Later they began using Reagan...
...diaphragm is a thin rubber shield held in place against the vaginal wall by the tension of its springy rim. The cap is a thicker, thimble-shaped rubber or plastic cup that fits snugly around the neck of the uterus, the cervix, and is kept in place by suction. Both devices are used with spermicidal cream or jelly...
...thing about Suckerman, the clinging vinyl critter, is that he doesn't stick. Don't believe the box. He simply doesn't grip most surfaces. Despite the suction cups that bulge from his body, he makes but the feeblest attempt to cling to the wall of the Jordan Marsh toy department, bouncing off again and again with his shallow vinyl grin intact...
Abortion involves a lot of pain. In the United States, one abortion is performed every 30 seconds. The three major abortion procedures--dilation and curettage, suction, and use of a saline-solution--correspond to slicing, crushing, and burning the fetus to death. The saline solution, usually used after the twelfth week, is comparable to napalm in its effect on fetal skin tissue (and on the fetus' internal tissues, because the fetus drinks the amniotic fluid). Almost all abortions occur after the sixth week of pregnancy. Electroencepholographs reveal a fetal brainwave pattern at 42 days, and this date probably represents...
...counterargument is that Begin, in emerging from opposition to leadership, may be drawn to what Walter Lippmann once called "the suction of the center." Campaign Manager Weizman puts it another way: "There is a great difference between the behavior of the main opposition party and the major political power which has to lead the country." As for Begin's supposed intransigence, Weizman insists: "Believe me, give him time and he will behave as the head of a government. He will negotiate more than all the Premiers before him. You will see him becoming more flexible than anybody believes...