Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), the average American woman's fertility rate has dropped from 3.77 children to 1.8 -- below the 2.1 size needed to maintain the present population level. Meanwhile, he argues, Communist-bloc nations are producing at a rate of 2.3 children per mother, while the Third World rate is rising so fast that within 50 years its population may be at least ten times that of the West...
...three brothers and two sisters were raised in a middle-class household in Baltimore, where Lewis attended a Roman Catholic elementary school and then became a star quarterback at Dunbar High School. "He put a lot of time into his studies. He didn't goof off," says his mother, Carolyn Fugett, who divorced his father and married Jean Fugett, an elementary school teacher, when Lewis was nine years old. Though he does not readily talk about it, Lewis must have been exposed to a strong sense of black pride early on. As a ten-year-old paper boy, Lewis delivered...
...survival was due to being padded by her mother, at least we assume it was her mother," said Pam Davidson, a paramedic who was present when the child was found. "There was debris everywhere and there was no way to determine if the wreckage was part of the plane or another vehicle...
...struck down in the library of his ancestral country pile. There is not much out of the ordinary in either the premise or the solution, but Innes' plot prestidigitation is as deft as ever, and his celebrated sense of humor is in full flood, whether sketching a social-climbing mother or recounting a literal manifestation of bats in the belfry of a parish church...
...Adapted Eye. She may be a contender for another under her own name for Heartstones (Harper & Row; 80 pages; $10.95), a medieval enameled miniature of a novella. Set in the environs of a cathedral, it etches the opposite but equally crazy ways in which two sisters react to their mother's death and their father's potential remarriage. An explicit tribute to the quasi-supernatural stories of Henry James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Heartstones also makes full use of Rendell's own trademark chill, a slide-under-the-microsc ope dispassion that permits all sorts of behavior but forgives...