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Atosiban appears to cross the placenta in only minimal amounts and seems to have no adverse effects on fetal oxygenation or on maternal blood loss after delivery. Atosiban is a new drug that relaxes the uterus. Eight women having an elective cesarean section at term were given an intravenous infusion of atosiban over 208 to 443 minutes prior to delivery. The average concentration of drug in the maternal uterine vein at delivery was 332 nanograms per milliliter but the concentration in the fetal umbilical vein was only 42 nanograms per milliliter. Longer infusion times did not increase atosiban levels in the fetus. Fetal blood pH, which is a measure of oxygenation, was similar to a group of 60 women having elective cesareans who did not receive atosiban. Medication to control blood loss was used more often in the atosiban group and one woman hemorrhaged.

The Lindbergh kidnapping was a media spectacle. In the initial kidnapping reports, newspapers described the Lindberghs in sympathetic terms, as a family torn apart by the scourge of kidnapping that plagued the nation as a result of organized crime's seemingly unchecked power. Then, after the third day, with the Lindberghs under close scrutiny because of the investigation's unprecedented coverage due to their celebrity and the intense debate about how to address the nation's kidnapping problem, politicians, law enforcement officials, public figures, and the papers began publicly critiquing some of the Lindberghs' actions before, during, and after the night of the kidnapping. The papers served as a forum for assessing whether the Lindberghs should be deemed good parents, and the ensuing debate exposed gender and class tensions resulting from recent social and economic changes that threatened to undermine the parenting standards embraced by the era's dominant culture.

Moses Yale Beach, publisher of the New York Sun, and James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald, promoted the Mexican-American War through illustrations that linked conquest with the fulfillment of certain masculine ideals. Both were expansionists who wanted the United States to take Mexican land as spoils of war. But they differed in opinion on how much territory the United States should claim. Beach believed it best to take only the sparsely populated northern portion, whereas Bennett advocated conquering Mexico in its entirety. Consequently, there are important differences in the types of illustrations they published with their war reports that reflect their positions on land acquisition and its connection to the fulfillment of masculine ideals.

The authors present a case of bilateral femoral emphysematous osteomyelitis caused by The authors present a case of bilateral femoral emphysematous osteomyelitis caused by Escherichia coliin a 60-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis who was receiving long-term prednisone therapy. The infection in both femoral shafts was eradicated with surgical debridement, followed by insertion of intramedullary rods composed of culture-specific antibiotic cement into the femoral canals in conjunction with 6 weeks of intravenous antibiotics. The rods were subsequently removed, and no signs of further osteomyelitis were recognized at follow-up. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of its kind reported in the orthopedic literature. Emphysematous osteomyelitis, a rare and dangerous entity, can be successfully managed by intramedullary antibiotic delivery in the subacute setting. [Orthopedics. 2019; 42(1):e128–e130.]

AbstractIn 1887 William Randolph Hearst took over theSan Francisco Examiner and made it a New Journalism paper, imitating the techniques of earlier New Journalism publishers in major British and US cities. Because of the competition they faced from Hearst, the other publishers of daily newspapers in San Francisco—Michael de Young and Claus Spreckles—implemented New Journalism techniques in their papers. By the end of the century, San Francisco had become the first US city of its size in which all of the daily newspapers practiced New Journalism. At that time, eight other US cities had populations similar in size to that of San Francisco, and in all of them there were at least two differing journalistic styles practiced by the daily newspapers. However, through the early decades of the twentieth century, four of those cities joined San Francisco in having all of their daily newspapers practice New Journalism.

The strength of optical turbulence, C_n^2(z), 2–3 m above ground level, was measured as a function of distance along a 1.23-km path by the simultaneous capture of the scintillation from two infrared laser sources. The data collected differs in a number of important aspects from the normal vertical scintillation detection and ranging (SCIDAR) data in astronomy. The SCIDAR inversion method for the horizontal path problem is outlined and demonstrated on experimental data collected from three field trials.

The clinical study conducted was a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

• A family with a history of ichthyosis is described in which the type of scale was thin and fine, resembling that of ichthyosis vulgaris, but the inheritance is of the autosomal recessive type. We have reviewed our previous experience with 42 additional patients whose condition had been diagnosed as recessively inherited ichthyosis and conclude that there is considerable heterogeneity in the cutaneous manifestations. We suggest that it is not possible to classify all patients into categories such as lamellar ichthyosis or congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, and it may be better to use a more general term such as recessive ichthyosis until specific causes can be established.(Arch Dermatol 1986;122:428-433)