American - Journalist | January 25, 1960 -
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
Nancy Gibbs
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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