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...somewhere that, at a certain stage of development, the human embryo has gills like a fish. With these things in mind, he thinks: "Why should the country waste its potential fish reserves? In the Splendid Future, the fishlike embryo would be turned to good account. Carefully extracted from the womb, they would be conditioned to a separate existence in pools set aside especially for them. There they would grow scales and fins under the supervision of the State. And next door to the abortarium there would be a canning factory producing tinned fish in vast quantities. Some embryos would...
...vast majority of inborn defects are now recognized as due to something that goes wrong in the environment of the fetus - in the womb. In most cases, the underlying cause is unknown. In a few cases, the direct cause is now clear, thanks to an Australian ophthalmologist...
Among them all, as the camera watches, moves man: an animal among animals, swallowed in nature's hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws...
Castles to Indians. How did U.S. fiction get deflected onto this strange and sometimes morbidly haunted path? Like the good psychological determinist he is, Author Fiedler feels that it all began in the womb of English letters some two centuries ago. Pioneering American novelists had two English models-the sentimental novel of love embodied in Richardson's Clarissa and the gothic novel of crumbling castles and mental phantoms invented by Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto). Eventually housewives and what Hawthorne called "female scribblers" took over the sentimental novel; as a romantic fantasy it has paced U.S. bestseller lists...
COMBINATION. The method that has received widest medical approval in Western nations for about 30 years. The woman uses a rubber diaphragm to cover the mouth of the womb, in combination with spermicidal cream or jelly. Used by 35% of U.S. couples...