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...blessed interval of Reading Period to drive down. The idea was to break through the dreary isolation of the deprived. We made speeches in an available auditorium, stayed a couple of days and, like intellectuals through the ages, were hit and ran back to the security of the University womb...
...that the baby was never really alive outside the uterus and that no doctor could have saved it. After hearing 13 weeks of conflicting testimony, the jury had to decide whether "Baby Girl Weaver," as the fetus was known, was ever legally alive outside her mother's womb, and whether the actions (or inactions) of Dr. Waddill led to her death...
...synonymous with the good life. No longer. Today Sweden, the postwar living example of the affluent materialistic paradise, is caught in a raging economic crisis, the like of which few industrial countries have seen since the 1930s. Workers who used to boast of their high living standards and womb-to-tomb social welfare system nowadays demonstrate in the streets to demand speedy government action to stop soaring prices and booming unemployment...
...world," he says. "She was born ready to kill." Former Dancer Meg Gordon, one of Gelsey's few close friends, remembers the same thing in softer focus: "Even when we were little, her mother used to joke about it, saying, 'You must have come out of your mother's womb marching...
Produced by Osaka's Ono Pharmaceutical Co., the new suppository drug is based on one of the prostaglandins, hormone-like compounds once believed to originate in the male prostate gland. Researchers have long realized that certain prostaglandins could induce contractions in smooth muscles, including those of the womb. Soon doctors were using them to speed up labor in difficult births and to induce abortion when other techniques had failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus...