Word: birth
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...list of upcoming titles. On the other hand, I was able to send a note to my mother reminding her that a new Sarah Brightman CD was in stores. And the daily horoscope was pleasantly flattering. It predicted compatibility with my boss and potential mates; it even used my birth date, time and city to give a detailed, personal reading...
...scientists hope to learn how T-box genes turn on and off. That could give them clues to human birth disorders like Holt-Oram syndrome, which is characterized by stunted arms and hands and is linked to these genes. As for the chicks, the scientists didn't let them hatch, resisting the temptation to grow drumsticks...
...what about going home? I'm a Californian by birth and heritage, and I have spent enough summers in California to know that the locale can be heaven on earth. Why give that up? Why unnecessarily antagonize my parents by seeing them for a total of only five weeks in 1999? (While that might seem like a lot of time, it really isn't for an only child who talks to her parents every other day.) Because I want to eventually live in California, for me it represents the past and the future, but not necessarily the present...
...concert in 1993, coming onstage to greet lead singer Bono who was dressed (appro-priately enough for his meeting with The Satanic Verses' author) as the devil. A few years and a little hob-nobbing later, Rushdie, once a London music critic takes on the rock world from its birth in the '50s, through the glam '70s and into the technologically-driven '90s. Pop culture references abound; Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Madonna, Simon and Garfunkel, Andy Warhol and even Joh F. Kennedy. turn up somewhere, some of them slightly veiled by changed names. Rushdie's novel even had a rock...
...definition, stepmothers are rivals to the most revered figure in society: the birth mother--Mom. Whether the first wife is still in the picture or deceased, idealized thoughts about her haunt a stepmother's new home. "The mere fact that these children exist means that the first marriage in some ways lives on in hers," says Cherie Burns, author of Stepmotherhood. Stepmothers are often seen as stepmonsters, wicked characters in fairy tales or destructive home wreckers...