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...enough of mothers. It wasn't the womb I wanted to escape to. Outside the windows of the steaming, snorting, rolling chunk of industry and metal we call the Commuter Line, the usual stuff was flashing past--you know, telephone poles, lonely decaying buildings, clothes flapping on the line like lost souls. Nothing new. Clouds charged across the sky looking grumpy and muscular--who knew how soon the rain would come? Hell...
...Unfortunately, every baby born doesn't bring a loan from a World Bank with it when it comes out of the womb," McNamara said. "They need capital...
...high school, but I think we're pretty equal. I grew up in East L.A., just a few miles from here. You might say I was lucky. And I was. But I made a choice. I chose to start acting. I didn't come out of my mother's womb saying" -- and now he introduces a heavy Spanish accent -- " 'To be or not to be . . . that is the question...
...most misleading of the authors' assertions, however, fall in the chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests...
...transplanted a heart into Newborn Paul Holc. What made the transplant different was that the donor, a Canadian infant known as Baby Gabriel, was born anencephalic, that is, without most of her brain. Like virtually all anencephalics, she could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson's victims, who have since improved dramatically...