Word: birthed
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From the beginning to the end of human existence on this earth, everyone has had three prime events in one's life--birth, marriage or the equivalent and death. Since one can do nothing about the first and last, obviously copulation with the opposite sex to prolong the race is necessary. In that act the female orgasm is important, much more than for the male, and the key to that is in the clitoris, QED. --Richard N. Frye Emeritus Professor of Iranian
...chief health-care idea is Medical Savings Accounts, which unsurprisingly bestow new rewards on those whose good health might well be termed an accident of birth. His plan would push people toward catastrophic-protection insurance polices with very high deductibles--say, $3,000. Medical bills up to this amount would be paid from tax-free accounts into which employers and employees contribute. Since people could keep what they saved below the $3,000 and invest it tax-free like an IRA, they'd have every incentive to be smart medical shoppers...
...Allende in 1981 to learn Spanish. Once there, the American saw a desperate need among local teenagers for sex education and health care. With a $7,000 grant she founded CASA, a counseling center and maternity hospital. Today its staff of 100, including 60 peer counselors who distribute birth control to surrounding villages, serves 50,000 people a year. Says Goodman: "It's important that these women have access to family planning, can build self-esteem and get the care they deserve...
...emphasize the postponement of intimacy, especially sex. Those who were caught up in the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s rebelled against these values, among others. Suddenly, having multiple dates meant having multiple sexual partners. Though other social factors are certainly at work, it's telling that the birth rate among unmarried women 15 to 19 years old increased from 12.6 to 42.5 live births per 1000 women between...
...chilling effect this could have on Internet communications is widespread, and the focus on indecency affects more than just the Playboy Web site. Images of classical works of art like Michelangelo's "David" or Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" might no longer be available over the Internet, since the nudity displayed in the pieces would technically be indecent...