• If the most usual way of treating the placenta in the West is to incinerate it, there are other cultures in which it has a special place in rituals following a birth.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why eat a placenta?

  • In a statement, the UFU president said Northern Ireland farmers had invested in a "birth to farm gate" traceability system in the local red meat sector, which was complemented by the Farm Quality Assurance Scheme.

    BBC: Ulster Farmers' Union: Anger over horsemeat scandal

  • But under California law, she found she had no right to do so because parental rights in a surrogate birth are granted to the intended parents.

    BBC: Surrogate mother pushes for adoption

  • Things have changed, but in Hungary only one birth in a hundred happens without some form of medical intervention.

    ECONOMIST: The pioneer of home births in Hungary faces jail

  • People tend to buy life insurance and then forget about it but a change in your financial situation or a birth, death, marriage, or divorce in your family could require you to update your beneficiaries or the amount of insurance you need.

    FORBES: 5 Common Myths About Life Insurance Needs

  • In one recent interaction, for example, Cardinal Scherer enaged a follower in a discussion about birth control.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The shortage of places in primary schools reflects a growth in the birth rate - with some areas facing an increase of 25% or above in the primary school population.

    BBC: Education & Family

  • Emilia Handumbo, one of the HIV-positive women suing the government, told CNN last year that she was given documents to sign while she was in labor and about to give birth in a public hospital.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The G-20 had a great birth in 2008, a rather brilliant 2009, but so far, 2010 has been a disappointment.

    FORBES: A View From St. Petersburg: Russia Rebounds From Oil Collapse

  • The first case of Schmallenberg disease in mainland Scotland has been confirmed on a Dumfriesshire farm after birth defects were found in a calf.

    BBC: A cow (generic)

  • Of course, anyone who doesn't have a will or has had a significant change in circumstances--a marriage, the birth of a first child, a divorce, a financial windfall, a change in state of residence--needs to act.

    FORBES: Estate Of Confusion

  • There are going to be signs of autism in a baby from birth, if a parent knows what to look for.

    FORBES: Look Out For An Increase In Autism

  • But, while Tautou's unmistakable similarity to Coco Chanel made her an obvious choice for the role, the striking actress says she wasn't interested in doing a "birth to death" biopic of the designer.

    CNN: Biopic breathes new life into Coco Chanel story

  • Acting Gov. Jane Swift, eight months pregnant, is expected to remain in a hospital until she gives birth in about nine days.

    CNN: Motherhood plays political role in Massachusetts

  • Supporters say the law, which took 14 years to pass, will reduce poverty and maternal mortality in a country with the highest birth rate in the region.

    BBC: Philippines contraception law signed by Benigno Aquino

  • It could be changed by a renewed surge in birth rates, for example, or a continued rise in immigration by Hispanics and Asians, most of whom are young and who will work and pay Social Security taxes for many years before the collect benefits.

    CNN: A Debt-Threatened Dream

  • Thalidomide, which was given to pregnant women to relieve morning sickness, was recalled in 1961 in the aftermath of a wave of birth defects in Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan.

    FORBES: Thalidomide: A Specter Still Haunts the World

  • The current birthing unit at Grantham "works to the same criteria as a home birth" so only women who have no complications in their pregnancies and have a straightforward birth can use the unit.

    BBC: Lincolnshire

  • In addition, young mothers face terrible threats to their health such as fistula -- a hole in the birth canal caused by prolonged labor without prompt medical intervention.

    CNN: Africa's birth rate: 'Why women must be free to choose'

  • It's as if the desire to keep these babies in a country with the lowest birth-rate in the world, was just too much for these baby-starved women.

    BBC: Rwanda's tug-of-war children

  • Schering AG, which operates under the name of Berlex Laboratories in the U.S., is a big player in birth-control pills, has blockbuster in the multiple sclerosis treatment Betaseron, and is developing some promising cancer drugs.

    FORBES: Avaricious In Germany

  • Mitarai describes the crisis in plain language: seemingly unstoppable decline in birth rates, a turn to population decline, doubts about the future of the social security system, a shrinking domestic market.

    FORBES: Is This the Japan that We Hoped For?

  • Team Active has been engaged in a desperate plea for help in an industry that seems to give birth to a new ETF every week, making them costly, and as outdated as the mutual index fund.

    FORBES: Active Money Management Gets Back Their MoJo

  • "She is not skirting any legal issues in her application to adopt this child and is looking to provide a loving family environment and the best education and health care possible for a child who has been in an orphanage since her birth, " spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg said in a statement earlier this week.

    BBC: Malawi backs Madonna adoption bid

  • In just one year, the West Wing Week videos have taken viewers from Boston to Brazil, from tech conferences in San Francisco to the birth of a new democracy in South Sudan.

    WHITEHOUSE: Tune In for West Wing Week Live Chat on

  • The engrossing half concerns the title character (Tamblyn), a sixteen-year-old girl in a Hudson Valley town who gives birth while on a ski trip.

    NEWYORKER: Stephanie Daley

  • "While in some areas we are seeing a maturing population and a fall in the demand for school places, in others, with more people moving in and an increase in birth rates, there will be a need for more places, " said Councillor Les Wicks.

    BBC: Medway draws up plans for new school places

  • And 40 years after it opened, the spiritual retreat once viewed by critics as a hippie commune, now hosts Janmashtami, the largest Hindu festival in Europe, which marks the birth of Krishna, a popular God in the Hindu Pantheon.

    BBC: 'George Harrison' Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu temple at 40

  • Neither her birth in a poor neighbourhood of Nanterre nor the serious accident that befell her as a child.

    UNESCO: House | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The growth of the business in Europe has given birth to a new species of star:the in-house hedge-fund manager.

    FORBES: Constellation manager

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定