Word: birthed
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...didn't take long for the backlash to begin. Breast-cancer support groups weighed in almost at once. Why, they asked, would an otherwise healthy woman want to take a drug that can cause birth defects, trigger blood clots and double her chance of getting cancer of the uterus? Some questioned the drug's value even for the 29 million American women whose chances of getting breast cancer are, like Helene Wilson's, significantly higher than the 1-in-9 national average. Tamoxifen is already approved as a breast-cancer treatment, so physicians can prescribe it for prevention as well...
...head of the settlement talks was played without formal authority, only the respect he earned from all the parties. Working without pay, he juggled peacemaking with his regular job as a Washington lawyer, while navigating family crises, including his brother's death, his wife's miscarriage and the birth of their first child in October. After the pact was finalized, there was another area of agreement--for what Blair called the "infinite patience and kindness" of Mitchell. Clinton said Mitchell was "brilliant," while maintaining modestly that he himself just "did what I was asked to do." Ironically, it was Clinton...
FOLATE FOR ALL A new recommendation for women of childbearing age: take a daily supplement of 400 micro-grams of folic acid, a B vitamin, to prevent birth defects. A separate study finds that eating cereal fortified with 400 mcg of folic acid can lower a man's blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease...
...late 1970s, the advent of DNA recombination techniques set the stage for a revolution in pharmaceuticals: the birth of the biotechnology industry...
From the outset of his premiership, Churchill, half American by birth, had rested his hope of ultimate victory in U.S. intervention. He had established a personal relationship with President Roosevelt that he hoped would flower into a war-winning alliance. Roosevelt's reluctance to commit the U.S. beyond an association "short of war" did not dent his optimism. He always hoped events would work his way. The decision by Japan, Hitler's ally, to attack the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, justified his hopes. That evening he confided to himself, "So we had won after...