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...pain that circumcision inflicts on babies, usually during their first days of life, can be dulled by an analgesic cream or shots of local anesthetic. Amid all the other shocks and discomforts of adjusting to life outside the womb, it's unlikely the procedure would leave a boy with lifelong trauma. Complications are uncommon and generally minor, involving a little bleeding or inflammation (and not accidental amputation). Older boys who undergo circumcision are typically given general anesthesia...
...approaches the martial arts, the group expresses an infectious playfulness and joy. Kodo reveal a childlike approach to drumming in the Japanese characters of their name, which can mean either "children of the drum" or "heartbeat," the original rhythm of the mother's heartbeat as first heard in the womb...
MOST KIDS STAY IN THE WOMB FOR 388,800 MINUTES / JAY-Z, GRAMMY WINNER FOR BEST RAP SONG, HUNG OUT AT THE CRAMMYS FOR O MINUTES / DARTMOUTH'S GREEK SYSTEM HAS BEEN SINGLE SEX FOR 81,907,200 MINUTES / ST. PATTY'S DAY WILL BRING THE LUCK OF THE IRISH IN 18,720 MINUTES / AVERAGE WAIT AT HARVARD SQUARE'S CHILI'S GRILL & BAR, SATURDAY, 6:45 P.M. 25 MINUTES / TIME IT TAKES TO WATCH "200 CIGARETTES" 97 MINUTES / APPROXIMATE TIME TO SMOKE 200 CIGARETTES 800 MINUTES / ABANDONED LANDMINES KILL OR INJURE ONE PERSON EVERY 20 MINUTES / MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL...
...Connaught hospital, doctors began reporting last April that they were seeing an enormous number of mutilations, as well as women who had had foreign objects inserted in their vagina. Aid workers say pregnant women, normally highly respected and well treated in Africa, had had fetuses cut from the womb while they were still alive. Rebel soldiers slashed one woman's ankles so she could not run away. She was raped and beaten over a one-month period...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...