Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who chafe at purely vicarious New Year's Eve thrills, may I suggest giving birth? We're talking first baby of the millennium! If you're not due but are somewhere in the ballpark of viability, get a C-section. It shows a hell of a lot of moxie to be lying split open on an operating table on a night when the hospital's monitoring equipment will probably shut down thanks to the Y2K computer crash, while you're at the mercy of a skeleton crew of probationary interns who are so low in the hospital pecking order...
...fascinating in the first tract, but becomes a bit monotonous after appearing incessantly throughout the album. If you're able to get past the tedious three-minute instrumental introductions of each track, powerful lines such as, "What good is ones toil underneath the sun?/that same indifferent sphere gave birth to the shadows/where we count the days off by headlines on the morning paper" (from "Seizures") are sure to move...
...According to Wamback, the inclusion of students' birth dates was requested by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a convenience to undergraduates for the purpose of "backup to other proof of age where drinking on campus is concerned." The date was printed on the card until 1995 when the date began being embossed along with the rest of the digits on the card. Ancient, grizzled members of the Harvard community (seniors) have surmised that this transition was made in order to thwart the efforts of students attempting to transform their cards into fake IDs by altering their birth date...
...offense will have to make do without the services of senior forward Carrie Jokiel (7, 5), whose career ended Oct. 15 after the Wildcats' captain suffered an injury that revealed a congenital birth defect...
...from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 54% of high school kids say they wouldn't know what to do if they or someone they know were raped, 51% wouldn't know where to go to be tested for a sexually transmitted disease, and 46% don't know they can get birth control pills without a parent's approval...