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...with no sign of the baby. Facing the likelihood of losing mother and child, and in the absence of any surgeons, Mrs. Nufer's husband, a swine gelder, decided to cut her open and extricate his offspring. Because there had, at this time, been no known incidence of a woman surviving such a procedure, the couple would have said what were assumed to be their last goodbyes before Jacob Nufer made the first incision...
...cesarean birth, Professor Eugene Declercq of the Boston University School of Public Health cautions against giving too much weight to the cesarean-mortality connection, but concedes that "there is some evidence of higher maternal mortality rates in cases of cesareans to low-risk mothers," and suggests that a woman contemplating a C-section should ask herself why she should undergo major surgery "when she and her baby are healthy...
...ignored the wise words of my fellow driving-impaired friends, and psyched myself up for the big day.Sure, maybe they haven’t passed anyone...yet, I thought. Just wait until they saw my driving skills. I sat in the car, waiting for the woman from the DMV to climb in. “It’s freezing in here. Turn off the AC.”“Oh, okay, I’m sorry.” I fumbled with the temperature controls on the console, randomly smacking buttons until I hit something that seemed...
...manner of dealing with the world around them is genuine, beautiful, and adorable—and seems more mature than the coping strategies used by the adults around them. The film relies on scenes of daily life—a man filling his car at a gas station, a woman crossing the street holding a baby, a sweeping view of the town—to create a superficial sense of security. The exterior goings-on of this “Pleasantville”-esque neighborhood renders its interior discord shocking. “Snow Angels,” while successful...
...more disown [the Rev. Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother," Barack Obama said in the most powerful sentence of his extraordinary speech about race on March 18 in Philadelphia, "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me ... but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...