Word: birth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...border with Bangladesh, the hillside village of Cherrapunji offers an even better insight into India's water paradox than the view from Captain Singh's cockpit. The women of Cherrapunji are small and muscular, their cheeks lined with the same parched wrinkles as the wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East" by the British, Cherrapunji lost...
Ellwood said because of the aging Baby Boom population, the number of native-born working adults aged 25-54 in 20 years will be no different than it is now. In addition, the number of children per household has decreased with the advent of reliable birth control in the 1960s, Ellwood said...
...tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here. "Some pastors preach fire and brimstone," says Laverton's newly inducted pastor Rhys Winter, "but Pastor Peter is more a teacher than a preacher." In the process, Marumba says he wants to give birth to a new kind of Christian worker - "a person that can float above all the issues." Laverton's Wongatha Wonganarra Aboriginal community is luckier than some - it's dry. The first indigenous community in W.A. to enact plain-English by-laws to help its members stay out of trouble...
...health bellwether that always catches the eye of epidemiologists. "As a pediatrician, I can tell you that this is a major cause of concern," says Alexander. It's possible that the reason is merely better prenatal care that's enabling more sickly babies to survive through birth but not a great deal longer...
...That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast-food franchise. Franchise: it's Hollywood's magic word. For decades, the moguls groused because their products, unlike cars and potato chips, were not endlessly reproducible. The Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind and The Sound of Music were the up-to-their-time top grossers, but there was no Re-Birth, Re-Wind or Re-Sound. It took The Godfather, Part II, to make sequels chic. (An Oscar for Best Picture will do that...