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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...million abortions performed in 2005 numbered 25% fewer than the high of 1.6 million in 1990. That would seem to be good news, whether you view abortion as an evil, or a necessary evil, or a routine medical procedure no more morally troubling than a tooth extraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Have Abortion Rates Fallen? | 1/21/2008 | See Source »

...Since 1980, the person who won two out of [the first] three states has gone on to get the nomination," McCain often tells reporters on the trail. Even though he leaves New Hampshire on a victory roll, the voters in South Carolina still view John McCain--long in the tooth and in the Senate--as an insurgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Party Faithful | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...nomination," McCain often tells reporters on the trail. They are words that might come back to haunt him. Even though he leaves New Hampshire a victor, with a head full of steam, it appears to the voters in South Carolina that John McCain - long in the tooth and the Senate - is still an insurgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee Looks to South Carolina | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

Glenn, reviewing a new book for the Globe on the history of toothpicks, discovered that in 1860s New England “polite society regarded public tooth-picking as vulgar...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Literary Mystery: Solved | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...villain of the piece is Spacey, as a Scrooge type, sent from McKinsey-like headquarters, whose job is to impose stricter rules on all benefactors of children. (The Tooth Fairy has been told she can put money under kids' pillow only after the first tooth.) Conversion is the fate of every marplot in a movie like this. So Spacey, who played Lex Luthor in last year's Superman Returns, gets a Superman cape for Christmas. In-jokes and cross-marketing (the same company, Warner Bros., released both Fred Claus and Superman Returns) are about as sophisticated as this movie gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

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