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...become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a nine-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I thought of happy endings...
...fares worst? Women of color and women over the age of 45. According to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and analyzed by the Employment Policy Foundation, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C., childless women aged 25 to 35 earned roughly the same amount as their male counterparts. After a woman?s 35th birthday, however, things take a turn for the worse: The study shows that women aged 36 to 44 earn 80 percent of what men earn, and those aged 45 to 54 take home just 75 percent of men?s salary. Across the racial...
...don’t think most of [the women] want a childless marriage,” he wrote...
EXPECTING. PRINCESS MASAKO, 37, and PRINCE NARUHITO, 41, Japan's childless Crown couple;in Tokyo. The baby, who could be the Chrysanthemum Throne's 126th Emperor, is due inSeptember. Despite the fact Masako's 1999 miscarriage was blamed on the media frenzy that surrounded that pregnancy, more than 100 journalists flocked to her parents' home last week. Pundits predict a nationwide baby boom. PLEADED INNOCENT. DRAGAN OBRENOVIC, 38, to genocide charges stemming from his role in the 1995 Srebrenicamassacre of 7,500 Bosnian Muslims; in The Hague. According to his indictment Obrenovic carried out the orders ofGeneral Radislav Krstic...
Into the Woods, perhaps Sondheim’s best-known and loved musical, involves the development of many familiar fairy tale characters as they journey into the woods “to get their wish.” The story centers around a childless Baker and his Wife, who must obtain four items to reverse a curse set upon them by the Witch. Along the way, they meet Cinderella, Jack (as in “and the Beanstalk”), Little Red Riding Hood and a whole host of characters, each bent on obtaining his or her own particular desire...