Word: hampers
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Still, the news that a 63-year-old California woman gave birth to a baby girl gave me pause. She will be pushing 80 when this child is denting the family car, filling the hamper and emptying the refrigerator. What's more, 63 is not the outer limit. What this birth shows is that by using donor eggs, a woman can carry a child well into her dotage, like the legendary Thurmond. Think about it: Mother Teresa could become a mother...
...kappa opioids favor females? Could estrogen, the female hormone, somehow enhance the drugs' effectiveness, or might the male hormone, testosterone, hamper it? Another possibility, Levine suggests, is that women's brains have more--or more responsive--kappa receptors, enabling the kappa opioids to block pain more effectively...
...worried that Dole might toss his boxer shorts in the garbage instead of the laundry hamper," I said, right at the beginning of the interview, "I'm sure they have staff at the White House to sort out that sort of thing. Also, we don't even know if Dole wears boxer shorts. So far, Bill Clinton is the only presidential candidate who has made his preference in undergarments a matter of public record...
...True," John said. He's always been a man willing to see both sides of an issue. "Also, as it happens, our garbage pail looks quite a lot like the laundry hamper." He brought both into the living room, where we were conducting the interview. They didn't look at all alike...
...Hyde, and, more specifically, the Jerry Lewis classic by the same name. In this version, however, the professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously psychotic dean at Klump's university (Larry Miller...