Word: birth
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...sense of dispossession [that resulted from his illegitimate birth] left a hole in his psyche that he has forever after been trying to fill," Frady says...
...dearly for their sexual pleasures. They die as they ejaculate, killed by the queen, who merely requires their sperm. Their function fulfilled, they die. In the human hive, the drones carry condoms in their wallets. Bees do their jobs; if they do not, the whole outfit dies. From birth, bees are very serious about being bees...
...seen it now. Did you wonder at the idea of a virgin birth, of someone being "The Chosen One"? Did the idea of midichlorians make you think? Did you wonder at the hand of the Force in bringing Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn to Tatooine and "bumping into" Anakin Skywalker? Were you curious about the fall and redemption of Darth Vader...
...coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle against opposition attempts to center their campaign for September's election around the issue of her foreign birth. Gandhi's brief resignation had been prompted by three Congress leaders -- subsequently expelled -- echoing this concern. "She has shrewdly used the rebellion in the party to her own advantage," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It's built up Congress's resistance to the opposition's main line...
...link could be coincidental. Or it could be that the same mechanism that triggers the disease also destroys the body's ability to retain folate. But folate and the amino acid it controls, homocysteine, have already been implicated in a broad range of diseases, as well as certain neurological birth defects...