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These were cases in which a fetus might be suffering from a heart or lung problem that could kill or severely injure an infant after it was born. To repair the damage before birth, teams made incisions not only into the mothers, but also into the fetuses themselves. Throughout the procedure, the fetuses would always remain connected to the mothers through the placentas and umbilical cords. After these procedures, Hariri watched two remarkable things happen. First, the babies that were born almost always fared far better than they would have if the surgeons had waited to operate after they were born. And second, the new infants showed no scarring or incisions from the prenatal surgery. The placenta had pumped so many fresh stem cells into the fetus before birth that the body had entirely regenerated!
Immortality, Inc.
Chip Walter
The populist ideal of electoral democracy, for all its elegance and attractiveness, is largely irrelevant in practice, leaving elected officials mostly free to pursue their own notions of the public good or to respond to party and interest group pressures.
Democracy for Realists
Christopher H. Achen, Larry M. Bartels
When you’re the boss, it’s awkward to ask your direct reports to tell you frankly what they think of your performance—even more awkward for them than it is for you. To help, I adopted a go-to question that Fred Kofman, author of Conscious Business and my coach at Google, suggested. “What could I do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?”
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