Word: 18th
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Last month, New York became ht 18th state to impose major restrictions on surrogate parenthood. Fearing that current surrogacy practices amounted to a baby-selling business, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo passed a law that prohibited the adoptive parents from paying the surrogate mother. The law also denied legal validity to the contract traditionally signed by both parties...
...does any of this necessarily mean an end to the killing. Ivo Banac, a Croatian-born Yale history professor, fears a repetition of the 16th to early 18th centuries. "Then," he says, "the region was in a state of permanent seasonal war." A modern version might consist of back-and-forth fighting among Serbs, Croats and remnants of an independent Bosnia across ever shifting frontiers. War could resume in Croatia too, despite the presence of 14,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Though a cease-fire has supposedly been in effect since January, Serbs last week resumed shelling the port of Dubrovnik...
...Middle Ages, creating the Gothic city. Then came a slump, as the ascendancy of Castile and the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic thrust Barcelona into a 200-year depression, from which it began to recover by industrializing only at the end of the 18th century...
Since November, McCartney has been holed up weekdays in a renovated 18th century mill overlooking England's southern coastline. He is laying down songs in his private 48-track Hog Hill Studio for an untitled album -- his 23rd since the Beatles' breakup two decades ago -- and preparing for a new tour next year. Hog Hill boasts the latest in electronic gear, but there are nostalgic and whimsical touches too, like Elvis Presley's bass from Heartbreak Hotel, the Mellotron from Strawberry Fields Forever and a Megaroids video game. Next to the studio is a cozy kitchen featuring a spread...
...that dream came to an end Saturday, as fourth-seeded Georgia took three straight singles matches en route to a 5-2 victory over the 18th seeded Crimson in a packed Henry Field Stadium in Athens...