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Homans's definition of birth is much more restrictive, insisting that the fetus must have breathed to have been born. And he contends that the fetus in the case "never drew a single breath." Judge McGuire's instructions to the jury, after the attorneys' closing arguments, will be critical in providing a definition of birth...
...Naan, 60, a secretary for the American Heart Association in New York City, learned from her doctor during a postoperative checkup that her blood pressure was slightly elevated. About a year later she began to be short of breath, and a screening of A.H.A. staffers revealed that her blood pressure had risen dangerously...
After meals, the pooch may have his teeth brushed with Happy Breath toothpaste or a new beef-flavored variety, then go out to be fitted for a hounds-tooth jacket, a gold bracelet, black lace panties, a lame evening gown, top hat and tails, Halloween outfit, caps, booties and pajamas. He may have his coat dyed to make him look younger, or work out on a jog-a-dog machine (at $575) to keep him in shape, or have his portrait painted in oils. There are clip-on diapers for parakeets, hairpieces and false eyelashes for poodles, snoods to keep...
...year out, six old men sit sipping coffee around a picnic table inside a gas station located off the Bellefonte State College exit off Interstate-80. There, to their backs, stand a full barrage of vending machines along with racks of groceries. In front of them, through the breath-fogged, plate glass windows, another carload of home-bound college kids unloads, and the men stop talking, bracing themselves for the next invasion of brash, Harvard-educated Southerners, Westerners or Midwesterners...
...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...