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We hear the heart rate at 85 bpm. This is close to what mine is, normal for an adult, but it isn’t right for a seven-week embryo’s, whose heart rate should be double that. We all hope for our children to race ahead of us, dream up and do things we never could; in a sense, these early rapid heart rates signify their readiness to do that, to grow and become someone of their own. But this baby isn’t going to.
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Continue ReadingA current resident of Bethlehem reflects on Advent.. Years ago, when we lived on the edge of Jerusalem, I used to pass the ruins of the Kathisma...
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