Word: birth
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...BIRTH CONTROL PILLS...
...Parenthood organization gave him $30,000 and told him to develop a contraceptive that was "harmless, entirely reliable, and aesthetically satisfactory to husband and wife." Within 10 years, however, Pincus and his colleagues delivered, inventing the drug that sparked the sexual revolution. Introduced in the U.S. in 1960, the birth control pill, known simply as the Pill, was an ovulation-suppressing mix of estrogen and progestin that was 99% effective...
...source of the movie Soylent Green) predicted a New York City crammed with 35 million people, each allotted a meager four square yards of living space. That novel is set today--in 1999. It was published in 1966. The scenario made sense back then, before the advent of widespread birth control. All you had to do was follow the exponential curves...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...
...sleeping pill, thalidomide, is prescribed in Britain and Germany. It is later found to cause severe birth defects and taken off the market...