Word: pill
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...appointment of Albert Carnesale as provost may be the prescription that integrates the University's decentralized schools and departments, but it is a bitter pill for the Kennedy School of Government faculty to swallow...
Technology will also have a part to play. The inevitable arrival of RU-486 will make abortion a quicker, easier decision for many. For those in the middle, declaring abortion to be murder will be even harder when the procedure is little more than taking a pill...
They were for house committee, for Pete's sake! Take a chill pill...
...know why I didn't" was all she said. "I wasn't thinking. I usually use some sort of protection." Then she laughed, a nervous, high, laugh. "I used to be on the pill," she told me. "I stopped about two months ago. This is the first time in while I haven't been careful...
During the derided '50s, any American past the age of 13 was not automatically thought to be "sexually active." A version of what have now become the Antioch rules was at that time a part of the adolescent's mental software. In the Pleistocene before the Pill and legal abortion (an era that most young feminists have been taught to consider barbaric), both boys and girls felt a terror that a mistake would lead to pregnancy, hence to unwanted, premature marriage or to an abortion nightmare. That terror enforced a certain discipline and formality. Everyone knew -- as human beings understood...