Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of these would-be mothers. A respected, pioneering obstetrician-gynecologist reported that in three cases a ripe egg cell had been removed from a wife and fertilized in a laboratory by sperm from her husband; then the resulting conceptus had been implanted in the wife's womb and she had given birth to a normal child. The three babies thus conceived are now from twelve to 18 months old. But optimism faded fast with the news that the doctor had failed in 30 other attempts to duplicate his successes, and was giving up the work...
...exception to the rule: "When I was younger I did want to go to Broadway. Now the basic thing I wanted to do when I was 18 is no longer a fantasy. I know a lot of people in the business." So Rubins will finally leave the womb of Cambridge to seek a living in New York. "I'd be thrilled--thrilled if I could support myself doing anything involving the arts"--and that includes writing songs, teaching acting, writing arts pieces for magazines, even composing commercial jingles if necessary. Rubins evaluates his position: "I know I'm a solid...
...same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...
...shots that might have caused serious discomfort in human patients, or endangered them or their developing eggs. The resulting scenes (the ovary expelling an egg, for example) are indistinguishable from their human counterparts. Furthermore, human volunteers were used for the crucial scenes. The sequences showing fetal development in the womb were filmed on location-in-the uterus of a woman scheduled to undergo an abortion for medical reasons. They show the fetal heart, the serrated outline of the fetal spine and, finally, the fetus itself...
...just related his Republican mother's belief that "if the rich are disenchanted, then we are all unemployed." Immediately the distinguished jurist adds, "Even at the age of 14, I did not buy that theory." He seems compelled to explain that he leaped practically from the womb as a full-blown liberal and has never since been sullied by the errors of complacent conservatism. And as he inveighs his way along the road of life-chumming up with every hobo or sheepherder he encounters and detesting most churchmen, policemen and lawyers-a sad conclusion grows. It is all very...