Word: birthed
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...BIRTH-WEIGHT BABIES Those with abnormalities suggestive of inner-brain white-matter injury have a much greater risk of suffering some childhood psychiatric disorders...
DIED. RED SKELTON, 84, rubber-faced, gentle-hearted clown who always seemed one laugh short of tears; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. His father, a clown, died before his birth--a mixed inheritance that sent him tumbling from carnival to walkabout, perfecting lugubrious pantomimes and uproarious pratfalls. He landed in such movies as The Fuller Brush Man and A Southern Yankee, but it was his TV sketches, his Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader, that made giddy audiences squeal--for mercy and for more. Skelton, too, often dissolved into giggles at his own antics, even after his son died...
...GIFT OF LIFE Women who give birth in their 40s have a greater chance of living to be 100 than those who don't. The ability of late mothers to reproduce may indicate a slower aging process in such women and serve as a marker of longevity...
However, it was the delectable cheesecake recipe of one entrepreneur's mother that gave birth to the chain in Beverly Hills, where the first franchise opened...
...swept across the room. But not everyone: the President and the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Gore, looked like seated statues at Madame Tussaud's, glistening in the lights and moving not a muscle. She didn't stop there either, but went on to explain why artificial birth control is bad and why Protestants who separate faith from works are making a mistake. When she was finished, there was almost no one she hadn't offended. A U.S. Senator turned to his wife and said...