Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Percy in the Republican primary next year. "The Equal Rights proponents," she charged, "want to reconstruct us into a gender-free society, so there's no difference between men and women. I don't think babies need two sex-neutral parents. I think they need a father and a mother...
When Congress passed a bill last year eliminating Medicaid funds for abortions, the action was challenged in the courts. Last June the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Government is under no constitutional obligation to finance abortions if the mother's health is not in jeopardy. Fifteen states have also cut off public funds for the medical procedure, and the number is bound to grow. The Houston conference voted to restore that funding...
...each human cell, there are 46 chromosomes, which are actually long protein-wrapped strands of the master molecule DNA, containing thousands of heredity-bearing segments called genes. Half of the chromosomes are inherited from the father, half from the mother-including two sex chromosomes, one called the X, the other the Y. If in the genetic lottery of conception, the fertilized egg happens to get two X chromosomes, it will usually develop into a female. If it gets an X and a Y, it will probably become a male...
...Schwartz's achievement limited to verse. The title work was a brilliant short story whose narrator witnessed the past courtship of his mother and father, interrupting with cries of "Don't do it! It's not too late ..." No less a judge than Vladimir Nabokov placed this tale -written when Schwartz was only 21 -among his "half a dozen favorites in modern literature...
...moment when he was not acting-if only for himself. He was born in New York City and spent his early childhood in Bayside, a pinkish nook of Queens. His grandmother had been private secretary to Socialist Leader Eugene Debs. His father was a passionate Zionist, and his mother was always peddling leftist petitions. "When you were poor and Jewish in New York," says Dreyfuss, "you were either a left-winger or you were dead...