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Amniocentesis is, very simply, the removal of a little fluid from the amniotic sac which surrounds the developing child. This fluid, called amniotic fluid, contains cells derived from the baby's respiratory and urinary tract. A needle is injected through the placenta and a very small amount of fluid is withdrawn. This procedure can be done in the early weeks of pregnancy. However, because of possible danger to the baby, only a very small amount of liquid can be withdrawn. The few cells obtained earlier than the 16th week must be cultured from four to eight weeks in order...
Mailer was outraged by the scene in which a character bearing his name, rank and serial number was shot by a punk recruit. Furthermore, the bullet was fired into the very end of his digestive tract from a range that politely can only be called pointblank. At a meeting of lawyers and publishers, Mailer offered to reduce Lelchuk to "a hank of hair and some fillings." That literary phrase turned out to be a pretty good description of the novel itself...
William was crying and kicking two hours after surgery. The next day, he was not producing enough bile, so a medication which enhances bile flow, cholestyramine, was flown from the U.S. to Tokyo for him. The output of the baby's digestive tract by late January showed that he was producing bile and that it was being used in the metabolism of the special formula that he was receiving in addition to mother's milk. Last week he was strong enough to make the long trip home...
...property in question is a large tract of forest land bequeathed to the University by Ernest G. Stillman '08 upon his death in 1949. Consolidated Edison, the New York power utility, would need to purchase 240 acres of that land to build a controversial pumped storage power plant which has been tied up in litigation for the past ten years...
Sandbox is so snide, so single-mindedly superficial, that it turns out to be a rather effective tract against what it is touting: it makes having a family look like intellectual suicide. One searches throughout for a bit of humanity, a moment of emotional challenge, and finds only one, in the performance of Lois Smith. Hers is one of those rare talents that makes practically every role she has done memorable: the waitress in East of Eden, for example, or Jack Nicholson's sister in Five Easy Pieces. Here she plays (excellently) a testy working woman...