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...looks like a nursery-size flying saucer. But poking up where the antenna ought to be is a rubber nipple, and inside is tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
More than just a new bottle, Beniflex is an entire infant-feeding system. Everything about it is presterilized and disposable after a single use. Ready-to-use formulas supplied in quart cans are drained into the bottle through a plastic tube inserted by needle into the nipple -a process that takes only 15 seconds, and can be done right in the nursery. There is no more tedious measuring and mixing of formulas, no overnight refrigeration, no rewarming or washing and sterilizing of bottles for reuse. To buy and prepare Beniflex costs only 14? per unit, about the same as present...
Even babies notice the difference. As they suck in the milk, the plastic dispenser contracts; the bottom draws into the hollow of the top to prevent excess air from seeping in. "Since there is no intake of air," says a Denver nurse, "the infants cry less, sleep better and are better satisfied." Studies at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan showed that 98% of milk samples from Beniflex bottles met safety standards, while only 92% of glass-bottle samples checked out as well. Because there are far fewer chances for contamination or human error, says one hospital research report...
...news was that exactly one year ago, red-haired Everett Knowles Jr. had his arm completely severed when a freight train threw him against a bridge abutment. Though several similar operations have been tried since then, the reimplantation of "Red"' Knowles's arm by a team of plastic surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital is still the most successful case involving a whole limb...
...begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back...