Word: womb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antibodies produced in the mother's blood have moved to the child during pregnancy. But the implications are grim: the mother is infected with the virus for sure, and there is a 25% chance that the child picked up not just antibodies but the virus itself while in the womb or during delivery...
...four children born to women who harbor the AIDS virus becomes infected while still in the womb. However, a federally funded study has shown ; that mothers who take AZT after their 14th week of pregnancy reduce to 8% the risk of transmitting the virus to their babies...
...brain is my womb," he announces oh-so-seriously. "It give birth--[insert popping sound]--to pyramids...
...conjures ideas of our moment of birth, and the first moments of experiencing light. Light is burgeoning, not dimming. This work follows Blanks (1990-1), three glass disks of translucent pearl blue. The reflective nature of the work encloses the image of the viewer's body in an ethereal womb. So the transition from Blanks to Lid represents the moment of birth thrusting the viewer into a new world of light. The final work, Imagination Dead Imagine (1991) does not belong in the show because it does not create the excitement of renewal and epiphany that the pieces...
Admittedly, not even the most rabid sociobiologists contend that babies pop out of the womb with a thirst for bank robbing. Rather, they say, a constellation of influences leads to a life of crime, among them poverty, maleness and a trait known as "impulsivity," presumably caused by bad brain chemistry, caused in turn by bad genes. What, you may ask, is impulsivity? The standard answer tends to involve people who can't control their emotions or who get into bar fights. A study conducted in Finland found that men so characterized tend to be deficient in the brain hormone serotonin...