Three years ago, Singapore experienced its lowest birth rate in history, a fact that distresses its leaders, but apparently not the couples who pack the nightclubs and party all night.
For instance, many more children placed for adoption today have birth parents with a history of substance abuse compared with 50 years ago, says Albers.
The pope explains how the birth of Jesus changed history forever.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.
With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.
The history of this period, and of the decades preceding and following Israel's re-birth, is layered with controversy, yet one dominant motif of this history stands out.
They were grouped at birth according to whether there was a family history of allergies, if they had a pet, if their parents smoked and their family's socioeconomic background.
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Epidemiologic studies over the past 40 years have identified numerous risk factors for breast cancer, including: older age, an early age at menarche, a late age at first full-term birth, not having children, a family history of breast cancer in a first-degree relative, greater height, higher circulating estrogen levels, postmenopausal hormone use, breast density, history of breast biopsies, obesity (for postmenopausal breast cancer), and exposure to ionizing radiation.
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While focused on Europe, Kagan's book also makes wise observations about the U.S.' unique role in history, from the time of its birth as a "Hercules in the cradle" to its unprecedented position today.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Makena (hydroxyprogesterone caproate) injection to reduce the risk of preterm delivery before 37 weeks of pregnancy, in pregnant women with a history of at least one spontaneous preterm birth.
Guez's art draws heavily on the Christian Palestinian Archive, an electronic database he started that catalogs photographs, passports, birth certificates and other documents from the community's history.
Blair writes that history will count April, 2010, as the birth of the modern tablet, and 2011 the year that everyone else jumped on board to the trend.
Courtenay recommended that men with a history of depression see a mental health professional before the birth of a child to work through any issues that are causing stress and anxiety.
Mark has written such a wonderful script not only about the birth of a cultural phenomenon, but a moment in television's history.
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It is not only a series of popes but also a number of prominent secular thinkers who believe that the birth-control pill has been one of the major milestones in human history a diverse group that runs from public intellectuals of a previous generation like Walter Lippmann to such contemporary scholars as Francis Fukuyama and Robert Putnam.
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Adorning models, who stomped the courtyard like gawky adolescent gazelles topped by severe Marge Simpson hairpieces, there were tributes also to a romantic, earthy, wintry history of the West Lothian keep, where Mary de Guise gave birth to Mary Queen of Scots.
"For us, building your tree usually starts with census records and birth and marriage and death, and those are the core of doing your family history, " Godfrey said.
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It may seem unfair, as well as ironic, to say that an accident of birth disqualifies Viscount Cranborne from taking the lead in a matter so close to his heart and history.
He does not begin his history in Arabia, or at the moment of the Arabs' eruption into world affairs with the birth of Islam.
Experts who study the generations say that, thanks to reliable birth control and legalized abortion, the last couple of generations have been the "most wanted" in American history.
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