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Robert Burns was born 250 years ago, on January 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His father was a tenant farmer and his mother never learned to write, but Burns read voraciously and managed to secure a fairly thorough education. His family had very little money - when his father died, he left the family bankrupt - which inspired the egalitarian, anti-authority themes that would appear in Burns' future works...
...several steps further. Under the policy, NGOs that applied for family-planning funds from the U.S. Agency on International Development (USAID) had to refrain from using any of their own funds to provide abortion (with exceptions for cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother). The organizations also were not eligible if they lobbied to make or keep abortion legal in their own country or if they provided abortion referrals - a requirement that led many opponents of the policy to dub it a "global gag rule...
...child she was loud and talked constantly. She talked so loud we had her hearing tested, but it turned out her hearing was fine and that she just wanted to get her point across." - Polly Rutnik, Gillibrand's mother, in the Albany Times-Union...
Although Caroline Kennedy's rather disorderly withdrawal from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate may have overshadowed New York Governor David Paterson's actual choice, Representative Kirsten Gillibrand is not someone who stays in the background. The ambitious mother of two fulfills two criteria Paterson reportedly had in mind: she's a woman, and she's an Upstater with deep family ties to the Albany area...
...mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey." - Saratoga.com (undated...