Susan (#402)-- My brother was born 12 weeks early in 1972. I don't remember his weight, but I have a photo of Mom holding him in the palm of her hand.
The doctor said that his lungs were unusually developed for his age and that the cord was wrapped so tightly around his neck that he probably wouldn't have survived if he had been carried to term.
Back then, none of the doctors expected him to survive much past his birth, but after three months in an incubator my parents brought him home and he met all his developmental markers just like he was supposed to.
Nowadays, he gets frequent migraines, but nobody has ever connected that condition with the circumstances of his birth. Otherwise, he's a healthy, smart, creative guy.
Clark: Thanks. That's good to know.
I forsee a business opportunity for FedEx offices established in the non-secured areas of airports.
I travel with a number of meds. I would have a couple of objections about packing them in checked luggage.
For one thing, baggage compartments are not environmentally controlled. All my meds have inserts that say very clearly at what temperatures the stuff needs to be kept. How cold or hot does it have to get before my medicine looses efficacy?
Another thing is that two of my meds are controlled substances. One costs US$4.80 a pill. How do I know that someone isn't going to steal this stuff? Fortunately, that's pills, so if I understand the regs today, I can take all of it on the plane with me (until they start realizing how easy it is to make powdered substances into pill-shaped objects).
Charlie: I always thought that strategy would work well in your standard exploitive big box store at Chistmas time, especially if scheduled for several places around the country (or world?) at once.
Stefan-- Your building could burn down. Poeple's lives are a stake. Call the manager. Call the landlord. Call the frickin fire department. This jerk has started two fires (that you know of) that only happened to have been extinguished before people were hurt and property damaged.
This is a serious situation: you need to totally rat the guy out.
(Also, I think the fire department likes to be called even if the fire appears to be out, just to be sure. What if there's a gas line running under that bush?)
...my grandmother washed all three of her children's diapers on a washboard.
Wow, if she had a washboard she really WAS in great shape! :-)
*snort* Well who know what she had under those practical ladies' fundamental garments?
...my wife thinks, because of the size of her biceps, that the artist actually used a male model for the body. I wonder. After all, how common were muscular women in the Forties?
I don't know about all women in the '40's, but my grandmother washed all three of her children's diapers on a washboard. Better the the gym for the arms, but not so easy on the hands (Mom said that, in all her early memories of her mother, her mother's hands were red and chapped.).
Now I have an image of democracy being a liquid, dripping out of leaky, rusted pipes.
It's alarming to me (such a gross understatement) that some many people I see posting and commenting around the net seem to believe that a democracy can exist without the rule of law. Or maybe they just don't understand the consequences of what they advocate.
Nancy, there's an internal inconsistency in all this that's been niggling me. I'm trying to work it out:
The most recent reason for the occupation of Iraq is that we are 'exporting democracy'. If it's accurate to say that a democracy must include the rule of law, then we are supposedly exporting that as well. And yet, with respect to prisoners and even sometimes even our own naturalized citizens, we have discarded the rule of law. We're trying to export the idea of basic human rights, but we don't respect them.
Well, there's something in that, but ragged.
Gah!
Gah!
Last night I was mulling over the idea "A Modest Proposal" for Iraq, but this morning I realized that some people just wouldn't get it.
Here in the bright red backwoods of the Shenandoah Valley, the dems aren't even bothering to advertise.
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