Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby emerges from the darkness of the womb with a rudimentary sense of vision -it would be rated about 20/500, or "legally blind," as one expert puts it, but eyesight develops rapidly. Newborns start by looking at the edges of things, exploring. Even when the lights are turned out, as infra-red cameras show, an infant's eyes open wide to carry on its investigation of its surroundings. At eight weeks, it can differentiate between shapes of objects as well as colors (generally preferring red, then blue); at three months, it begins to develop stereoscopic vision...
...foundation set down ten years ago. "The court repeatedly and consistently has accepted and applied the basic principle that a woman has the fundamental right to make the highly personal choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy," he wrote. Only when the fetus could be viable outside the womb, generally not until the third trimester, can the state seek to protect the life of the unborn child...
...idea of a residential college system--a synthesis of housing plans at Harvard and Yale--has been incubating in Princeton's administrative womb as far back as Woodrow Wilson's day, when the university's president envisioned a less elite alternative to the entirely selective "eating club" system. However, the idea transformed itself over the years into something much different. The new arrangement affects only freshmen and sophomores and will leave the eating clubs unscathed...
...consequences that could make honest talk fatal the rest of the year. What the Pharaoh wants to hear is the life stories of the elder Menenhetet, who has discovered a means of self-propagation by dying during the act of intercourse and transferring himself to his lover's womb. Menenhetet warns: "My story must be long like the length of the snake." The Pharaoh has no other plans for the rest of the night and encourages the old eyewitness to proceed "as slowly as you wish...
...indifference few readers will share. One seeks in vain for some faint sign of hope in Appelfeld's enigmatic parable. Redemption through suffering? Renewal or rebirth? Tzili's baby dies in her womb. The only human being who reaches out a hand to her is a prostitute. As the two women stand side by side on a ship headed for Palestine, the injured adolescent suddenly says to the fallen woman, "What I'd like now is a pear." That is all that is left of desire in Tzili, and even the pear is not forthcoming...