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...days after I returned from winter break my freshman year, my mom gave birth to my twin siblings, Adam and Mariam. I was on speaker phone for the hours it took to choose their names. It’s an arduous process in a Lebanese family. Do you name after the grandfather? Which side? Have you slighted any uncles? Luckily, enough people have had children in my family that just about everyone over the age of 20 has a namesake or two (even...
...hallmarks of a relationship meant to last just until Federline's first album release party. Spears and K-Fed, as he was dubbed, started dating months after she annulled a quickie Las Vegas wedding to childhood friend Jason Alexander and before Federline's ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson gave birth to his second child. At Spears and Federline's September 2004 wedding, the groom gave his attendants white tracksuits with the word "Pimp" written on the back, and revelers dined on chicken wings. The newlyweds shared home videos of their courtship on a reality show, Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Spears talked...
Moreover, this argument has much broader potential consequences, because, according to the Guttmacher Institute’s studies of worldwide abortion rates, only a small fraction of abortions occur despite consistent birth control use (i.e. the pregnancies come as a complete surprise to the women involved). Thus, only these abortions cannot be prevented by morally acceptable methods such as steady contraception or, in emergency cases, implantation-preventing medication. And, as reproductive science continues to improve, both in the detection and control of fertilization, these remaining ethical concerns surrounding unwanted pregnancy may soon cease to exist altogether...
Hunt was a progeny of affluence. Her birth father, Texas oil magnate H.L. Hunt, was dubbed “the world’s richest man” in 1948 by Life magazine. As an illegitimate child, she spent her first seven years in a modest three-bedroom house just a few minutes away from her father’s mansion. Her mother, Ruth Ray, raised Swanee and her three siblings as the offspring of a fictitious husband with the surname “Wright.” Life as a single mother and woman of faith was difficult...
TIME: Dr. Collins, the Resurrection is an essential argument of Christian faith, but doesn't it, along with the virgin birth and lesser miracles, fatally undermine the scientific method, which depends on the constancy of natural laws...