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More than two decades ago, women who had trouble conceiving were given a boost when Lesley Brown gave birth to the first TEST-TUBE BABY, in Oldham (pop. 227,000), England. The advance launched a debate over its ethical and biological implications...
...tell you that at the time he left Afghanistan, we could neither confirm nor deny that he was an American citizen." In January the FBI and Louisiana's state highway patrol started an investigation that tiptoed around the state's strict privacy laws and involved hand searches for birth certificates. It led to one issued for Hamdi by Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge...
...parents of athletes who believe they have raised the next big star and have tricked themselves into thinking that a place on a Harvard sports team is the way to go. There are the dramatic parents who want to give you the whole story, from wunderkind’s birth to this very moment, because somehow they’ve decided that you care. The silent parents who let their prospective student do “all” the talking, only interrupting to correct every mistake, dot every verbal “i” and cross every...
There are some outstanding people who run in Boston with amazing stories. For the last 22 years, 61-year old Dick Hoyt has pushed his son, Rick, in a wheelchair the entire 26.2 miles. Rick, who is 40, has had cerebral palsy since birth. He does not have the ability talk and is completely paralyzed. But he can smile. And every year, as Dick and Rick race by, hours behind the lead runners, they always get the loudest cheers...
...abuse, safe sex and academic pressure—that young viewers had never seen before. It was the first time I had seen teenage pregnancy, and through Brenda I saw how frightening it can be telling a boyfriend that he might be a father. What an incentive to use birth control! Drinking, which had never crossed my mind in middle school, became something I was vaguely aware of, with all its potential problems and decisions. I even remember asking my mother what the SATs were, since the goody-goody Walsh twins were always so worried about them...