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Eleven-month-old Matthew Cromwell was listless and had vomit in his hair when his mother picked him up in 1981 at the day care center in Clayton, Calif. Eight hours later he was dead of asphyxiation, apparently caused by blows to the stomach. Dozens of other children, their parents later reported, had come home from the same center with large bruises and emotional scars. Arrested for murder and child abuse, the center's operator, Eleanor Nathan, 36, knew that the only eyewitnesses against her were youngsters. Until lately the testimony of little children was rarely allowed in court...
...aspect of the training which the astronauts both enjoy and dread is floating aboard a specially padded plane that is flown in parabolic curves to simulate weightlessness. The astronauts have nicknamed the plane the "Vomit Comet," evidently for good reason...
...mycotoxins, or fungal poisons, known as trichothecenes, that apparently kill by rupturing blood vessels and inhibiting the blood's clotting ability. Within minutes of a yellow rain attack, villagers' eyes start to burn; soon after that, their skin erupts in blisters, and as internal bleeding begins, they vomit blood...
...indeed. The boy who was last to be chosen for any pickup baseball team, who was labeled "the retard" by the boys in his phys.-ed. class, who was sickened by having to dissect a frog in junior high and ran outside to vomit with the others-"and the others were all girls"- found he could win friends and influence people with his movies. He enrolled in a Boy Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today...
Fairbanks' comments get even more searing when he reflects on the McCarthy era and its chilling effect on China studies. "In the post-McCarthy years China was unappetizing. A dog may return to its vomit, but all the McCarthy era left behind was faces to warm over, with widespread treachery if you believed one side or widespread injustice if you believed the other...