Word: womb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...birth of Louise Brown in England in 1978. Louise was the world's first test-tube baby, conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, in which, after her mother's egg and father's sperm were united in a laboratory, the resulting embryo was implanted in her mother's womb. Louise's subsequent, internationally celebrated birth launched a new branch of medicine that has come to be known as "assisted reproductive technology...
...handful of cells, the very earliest stages of the nine-month process that turns a fertilized egg into a full-term baby. They were frozen only a few days at most after conception; they would not even merit the designation fetus until after three months in the womb. "You can't regard these as little people," says Robert Forman, clinical director of the London Gynecology and Fertility Center. "They are living cells. They are not humans...
Madonna: No, he was the only one I was dating in my bed then, so it is a scientific fact that the baby was made in my womb using him. But as regards these questions, enough! I am a woman and not a test-mouse! Carlos is an everyday person who is in the orbit of a star who is being muscle-trained by him, not a sex machine...
...begins during the first year at Harvard: to be pre-med or not pre-med? If you have known since you were in your mother's womb that you wanted to be a doctor, then this is no biggie. But if you want to practice medicine, and yet you also love American history or French literature or John Locke, then this decision is monumental. Essentially it asks: Do I hereby hand over a significant portion of my college education to some intro-level science and math courses which will be tremendous sources of frustration and boredom? Or, phrased more generally...
...Rather than indulging in these self-absorbed histrionics, Watt should feel shame for abandoning his son when the boy was only 18 months old and for never taking a bit of interest in his child in the years since. Monsters do not spring fully formed from a mother's womb. They become what they are over many years and after many wrong decisions. Had Watt stayed to bring up his son--or at least showed some interest in the boy and man--that might have saved the lives of 16 innocent children. IAN A. DUDUMAN Penhold, Alberta...