Word: birthed
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Speculating that breast cancer may originate in the uterus, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that breast cancer risk as an adult is linked to infant birth weight...
Apologies and rationales for marijuana are often ingenious, sometimes fervent, and in their essence, when applied to marijuana use by adolescents, dangerously wrong. The stage of development through which a child passes from ages 12 to 18 is critical. Adolescence is the labor that gives birth to the adult. It is a painful, indispensable process. Adolescence quite precisely requires the pain and difficulty of learning in order to come out well. Among the lessons, of course, are how to love and support others and how to be responsible...
They were born in 1978 when Xavier Roberts, then a 21-year-old art student, created the hand-stitched life-size dolls he called "so homely they're adorable." "Delivered" in Cleveland, Georgia, at a factory named BabyLand General Hospital, chubby-cheeked Kids of all ethnicities came complete with birth certificates and adoption papers. After Roberts signed an agreement with Coleco to mass-produce a smaller version of the dolls in 1982, they caused stampedes at toy stores, hitting annual sales of $600 million in 1985 before their popularity waned at decade's end. Now marketed by Mattel, the Kids...
After one helter-skelter day of turbulent bicycle rides in the park, Roger and Pongo fall in love with Anita (Joely Richardson) and Perdita. They hold a double wedding and soon Perdita gives birth to 15 Dalmatian puppies. Daniels and Richardson play these potentially corny scenes with deadpan sincerity, making the parallels between canine and human love amusing rather than insipid. The always-reliable and lovable Joan Plowright also appears as the couple's nanny...
Fred Couples and Tom Watson were far more successful. So, has the luster worn off? Is he not the big deal we expected? Are we watching another Todd Marinovich--the boy bred by his father at birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time only to disappear from view after a mediocre career...