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...Glass Womb...
...glass womb" is made from two glass slides, one with a scarcely visible depression containing a ripe ovum. The slides are sealed together and attached to a heater that maintains a constant temperature of 97.7° F. Fluid containing male sperm is then dripped into a tiny fissure in the incubator slide and drawn into the "love chamber" by capillary action. Once fertilization occurs, the embryo is kept alive with regular feedings of oxygenated amniotic fluid, drawn from a pregnant woman. With "cold light" and highly sensitive film, color and black and white movies are made of the process...
...subsidized by local authorities can be rented for as little as $7.60 a week, while the maximum for a four-bedroom house in the suburbs begins at $11.20 a week. The average British family can be fed on $14 a week. Taxes are heavy, but the government pays for womb-to-tomb medical care. And the average Briton lives to be a healthy 70, compared with 45.5 for the U.S. Negro...
...cosseted are New Zealanders by the costly welfare state of the Labor Party that most have become almost soporific. In power for 17 of the past 25 years, the Labor Party has set up a womb-to-tomb socialist program that provides baby bonuses, housing allowances, tax-paid medical care, and even off-track betting services. The islands have full employment, no poverty, but little wealth; more than 20% of the labor force is on the government payroll and nearly 50% of the population receives some sort of government pension. But tired of the controls and exorbitant costs...
...human body could be taught to tolerate grafts from selected donors, it would later be able to accept tissue transplants from those same donors. Seizing on Burnet's thesis. Dr. Medawar proceeded to confirm it in a series of laboratory tests. He inoculated mouse embryos in the womb with tissue from a different breed of mice, found that the inoculated animals later were able successfully to tolerate grafts from mice of the same breed as the original donors...