And given the anxiety we feel over taking care of one tree for a couple of weeks, we can only imagine what Mr. Muller goes through, babying each of his trees through ice storms and droughts for anywhere from 8 to 16 years, which is how long it takes one to reach a salable size.
The main referral hospital delivers approximately 3,500 babies each year, of which 8% are stillbirths.
Because among the crowds loitering on the Bund, which once, according to Shanghai historians, swarmed with ragged, insistently begging juveniles, the number of promenading babies, each with a retinue of doting adults, can be counted on one hand.
And in developing countries, where rotavirus kills hundreds of thousands of babies each year, the vaccine was never introduced.
But if medicine is an industry, responsible for the safest possible delivery of millions of babies each year, then the focus shifts.
There are babies on each of two covers.
Dr. King said that the Hono lulu zoologists had promised to send back to the Bronx Zoo two babies for each of the five females sent from here.
Three hundred and sixty neonates from second clutches of the maternal lines were collected on the day of birth (all beakers were cleared of babies each day prior to collection) and males were discarded.
For the last 14 days, Specialist Castillo, a 21-year-old artilleryman, has been trying to savor each kiss from his wife, each minute with the baby, each inch of his bed and each sip of Mountain Dew.
