Word: birthed
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Night in New Jersey. A soft, warm rain is falling. You are standing on Hill's front porch. Hill bought the house for her parents and has her own place nearby, but she's been living here as she readies herself for the birth of her child. Hill's mom helps with the baby, as does Hill's boyfriend Rohan Marley, the son of Bob Marley and the father of both Zion and Hill's unborn child. Hill says the two have "plans to marry" but no set date. In the meantime, she says, "I don't consider myself...
...movies, gays were first ignored, then scorned. By the early '90s, with AIDS doing its dirty work, gays got to be pitied. But they were typically portrayed as a separate species, the exotic other; and films about them tended to be about their gayness, its birth and death. "It was either 'Mom, I'm coming out of the closet' or 'Oh, my best friend is sick,'" says David Elzer of Trimark, which distributes Kiss. "It was issue, issue, issue. Now we're coming into a new age. Billy's story is universal. Everyone has longed for someone else...
...promoted a fatwa, a religious decree, from clerics ordering attacks on Americans--military and civilian--around the world. And last May he called a press conference to announce the formation of an Islamic front dedicated to driving the U.S. out of the Persian Gulf area. It was the official birth of a loose coalition of Muslim radicals that has been around since the mujahedin war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan--where bin Laden's legend was born...
...June, Webheads got to watch a live birth online. This Wednesday, the American Health Network is again testing the limits of public acceptance, by broadcasting an open-heart operation live on its website, www.ahn.com In the name of educating the country about heart disease, the cable channel will let viewers observe surgeons operate at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston at 2 p.m. E.T. Not for the faint of heart...
Courts, however, will and do. If the parties in the Virginia mix-up choose to listen to a judge rather than their hearts and common sense, precedent favors the biological claim. Remember Baby Jessica and Baby Richard, each tearfully pried from adoptive parents to begin life anew with birth parents? More recent and extreme cases, like the two-year-old Maryland boy plucked from a loving foster mother to be reared by a biological mother who had killed his sister, have prompted legislators to pass laws that give more weight to the "best interests" of the child...