Word: birthed
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...best female players in the game and one of its top earners--she has her own sneaker contract and children's book--was a little hesitant to tell the fledgling W.N.B.A. that she was pregnant, but says it was very supportive. Nevertheless, she waited only two days after the birth to ask her doctor if she could start training. And she wants another child, "eventually--not any time soon." At least not this season...
...historians divide Khmer sculpture into three long periods, starting in the 6th century to 8th century A.D., when its forms and imagery arose from Indian roots. These early images appear fully formed, without any of the archaic crudity that normally attends the birth of a style. They can be marvelously refined, like the 7th century to 8th century standing figure of the Buddha of the afterlife, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. There is a perfect balance between the abstraction of the limbs, the rich linear detail of the costume and the benign, almost feminine roundness of this Buddha's torso...
...year-old record holder died in France this month, the world's most famous record book held a stony silence on who the successor to the "world's oldest" title would be. Today they announced the winner: Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, a 116-year-old native of Quebec, whose birth certificate is stamped...
...could. Jerald Jackson, who is named on the birth certificate as Autumn's father, claims he is her real dad. Jackson, a convicted felon who is now a truck driver and born-again Christian, says he and Autumn's mother, Shawn Upshaw, had a relationship while she was a prostitute. (Upshaw "categorically denies" that she ever worked as a prostitute, says her attorney, Wanda Akin.) "We really cared about one another, and Autumn was supposed to symbolize that," Jackson told TIME. "I don't just believe I am the father. I know I am the father...
Then, from behind Door No. 3, yet another candidate emerged for the title of Autumn's father. He is a former busboy named Jesus Vasquez, whom Upshaw apparently married in 1973, a year before Autumn's birth--a marriage arranged, according to former friends, to help the Mexican immigrant gain U.S. citizenship. Joan Green, who was a waitress at the Los Angeles restaurant where Upshaw's mother and Vasquez worked, says everyone there assumed Vasquez was the girl's father. "The shape of her eyes and her eyebrows are Jesus," Green says. "And if you look at her baby pictures...