Elizabeth A. Davis is passionately, winningly earnest as Grusha, a servant who plucks a baby of noble birth from the chaos of war, then goes before a tribunal in the hope of keeping the child as her own.

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For another, the number of people retiring from 1990 through the rest of the century will be held down by the low birth rates of the Depression and World War II years.

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They stick it out through the Iran-Iraq war and the birth of two children, leaving for good a decade ago when Ms Nafisi received a fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.

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As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.

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Embracing Defeat includes chapters on the Tokyo war crimes trials and the rekindling of the Japanese economy with the birth of Japan Inc.

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Idaho sheep ranchers couldn't figure out why, in the decade after World War II, a random batch of their lambs were being born with strange birth defects.

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With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.

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