Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Health, the cause of this epidemic was never identified. But families of the dead and deformed babies filed a lawsuit blaming pollution from U.S.-owned factories located just across the Rio Grande in the heavily industrialized Mexican town of Matamoros. The defendants all denied causing the epidemic of birth defects. But just days before the case was scheduled for trial in 1995, the last of the companies agreed to settle the lawsuit. Dozens of companies paid a total of $17 million to the families--the price, said Jeff Roerig, an attorney for several border factories, of avoiding an emotional jury...
...these companies declined to respond on the record to CNN. GM did send a letter noting that "the primary cause of these types of birth defects is lack of sufficient folic acid in the diet" of the expectant mother. But Janet Ramirez responds, "I was always watching my diet. They're just trying to blame the victim." Each week she makes a pilgrimage to her daughter's grave site. MARIA GUADALUPE, the tombstone reads...
...between the birth of Enquire and the birth of the Web a decade later, the world had changed. The Internet, though still unknown to the public, was now firmly rooted. It was essentially a bare-bones infrastructure, a trellis of empty pipes. There were ways to retrieve data, but no really easy ways, and certainly nothing with the intuitive, neural structure of hypertext...
...director was even more excited when his wife Kate Capshaw gave birth to their latest child Destry. With excellent timing, she arrived on a production...
...emotionally mature these war-torn, Third World children arriving from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were than American children of the same age shocked me. I began a study of Southeast Asian child-rearing practices at the center. What struck me was the constant physical contact that began at birth and included family members sleeping together. These kids were not praised a lot, but they were never left alone. When it came time to begin school, these children, who were socially and emotionally better adjusted, could direct all their energy into learning, and eventually surpassed their American peers. JANET LANE Muralto...