Word: births
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bills currently before Congress call for a moratorium on granting animal patents until the issues can be examined more completely. Farm groups, for example, feel genetically altered livestock could raise production costs, since farmers might have to pay royalty fees to biotech concerns every time their prize livestock give birth. Says Howard Lyman, an analyst for the National Farmer's Union: "This is an economic issue...
...water begins to bubble up from the cavity below. First a trickle, then a stream. Soon a broad brown current several hundred yards wide spreads itself north and south. Knowing a dramatic photo opportunity when he sees one, Sanger revises his plans and sets out to videotape the birth of the River Mallory...
...even they are granted only one completely carefree Opening Day. One year after birth, they've got the memory of a season--complete with trades or injuries or championships or folds--behind them. One year after birth, they join the rest of humanity which--from the very start--has approached each Opening Day already tainted, biased, prejudiced and burdened with some knowledge of the past...
...cervix, but HPV has also been blamed for tumors of the vulva, vagina, anus and penis. The virus alone, however, probably does not cause cancer. Instead, say researchers, one or more of several co-factors seem to be required to trigger the disease. Among the suspected culprits: smoking, birth-control pills, and the presence of herpes and other venereal infections...
...GODFATHERS: BIRTH, SCHOOL, WORK, DEATH (Epic). Splendiferous, splenetic activist rock, like the Clash spiffed...