• It seems a development team at MicroProse has been working on Star Trek: The Next Generation--Birth of the Federation, a new Trek-based empire builder built upon the foundation set by MicroProse's Civ II and Master of Orion II.

    CNN: Star Trek: Birth of the Federation

  • Last summer the health department decreed that all new health-insurance policies should cover birth-control services for women, including the morning-after pill (which most pro-lifers consider a form of abortion) and sterilisation.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • The biggest winner in biotech last month was KV Pharmaceuticals, a heretofore unknown drug maker whose new drug to treat pre-term birth was approved but the Food and Drug Administration on Feb. 4.

    FORBES: Biotech Busts And Breakthroughs For February

  • Finding new technologies, such as low-cost infant resuscitation devices or incubators, and new approaches to improve birth outcomes for mothers and newborns would not only alleviate suffering, but would also have a significant impact on public health and economic productivity.

    WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

  • The spokesman said the city expected the program would continue on under the leadership of the New York City Imagination Library Books-from-Birth Foundation, which took it over last fall.

    WSJ: New Chapter in New York City for Children's Book Program

  • So far, says Chief Scientific Officer David Stirling , Revimid does not cause such birth defects in New Zealand rabbits--the only animal model in which the Thalomid problem shows up.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Columbia River is punctuated by 14 huge dams that still generate electricity for the millions who live along its watershed, and as the region shifts to other sources of renewable energy, it's giving birth to new giants awe-inspiring structures that will stare down at us for centuries.

    NPR: Power Structures Shape Northwest Landscape

  • Texting is not the mangling of language -- it's the birth of a new one.

    CNN: LOL isn't funny anymore

  • Brizendine said these daymares afflict about half of new moms and typically last three to six months post-birth.

    CNN: When motherhood becomes a nightmare

  • What we are experiencing is the birth of a new era, a wake-up call to overhaul our institutions, our systems and, above all, our way of thinking.

    CNN: Economic crisis dominates Davos agenda

  • This gave birth to something new, because the chilled-out, slower-working yeasts produced a stable beer at lower alcohol levels, and the summerlong aging blended and mellowed the beer's flavors.

    FORBES: Czech Mate

  • This move comes just weeks after a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, ordered the FDA to make the morning-after birth control pill available to women of any age, without a prescription.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The change is a true quantum leap, a death and re-birth, and the main characteristic of the new system is that it can handle the fluctuations, the input from the environment, that overwhelmed the old system.

    FORBES: Connect

  • 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

  • Though demand was strong, Italy had to pay 7.89% on three-year bonds and 7.56% on 10-year bonds, marking new highs for the country since the birth of the euro.

    WSJ: Ordinary Italians Confront Crisis by Buying Debt

  • Recently-delayed approvals include a new drug designed to slow the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease, the french abortion pill RU-486, and new uses for thalidomide, which caused serious birth defects when first introduced in the 1950's.

    CNN: FDA delays approval of new diet drug amid cancer concern

  • The idea, for instance, that the printing press rapidly gave birth to a new order of information, democratic and bottom-up, is a cruel cartoon of the truth.

    NEWYORKER: The Information

  • The couple was only found out when Krar tried to mail a package of counterfeit birth certificates to an anti-government militia member in New Jersey, but got the address wrong.

    CNN: Growing threat of extreme right-wing violence

  • Trump says he provided Maher with a New York birth certificate that proved he didn't descend from an ape -- but Maher hasn't paid up.

    CNN: Trump sues Maher for $5 million for orangutan sex joke

  • In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.

    WSJ: Erica Jong on the Madness of Modern Motherhood

  • "It feels like the birth of a new industry, " says John Musser, the 45-year-old veteran of Bell Labs and Electronic Arts who runs Programmableweb.com.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Oryx live in herds of up to 60 and new-born calves are able to run with their parents and other adults immediately after birth.

    BBC: Zoo kills endangered antelopes

  • "It feels like the birth of a new industry, " says John Musser, the 45-year-old veteran of Bell Labs and Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people ) who runs Programmableweb.com.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • James Anderson, resuming new ball duties after his 20, 000-mile round trip to England for the birth of his second child, thought he had dismissed Shane Watson in the first over of the match when Matt Prior took a flying catch down the leg side.

    BBC: Ashes: Chris Tremlett puts England in command

  • New figures to be published by UNESCO on Tuesday will show that birth and background -- where you come from and who you were born to -- matters far more in deciding your child's prospects than talent and merit, and that for millions of children educational opportunity is a hollow promise.

    CNN: Millions of children face Malala's fight for an education

  • And more and more people are announcing life-changing news such as the birth of a baby, a wedding or a new job online.

    BBC: Woman shopping online

  • Credit-card companies use the software to spot recidivists applying for new cards under modified names. (Names are cross-referenced with addresses, dates of birth and other data.) Developers and users are hesitant to discuss costs.

    ECONOMIST: Computing: What's in a name? | The

  • The authors even identified a universal "tipping point" in the life cycle of new words: Roughly 30 to 50 years after their birth, they either enter the long-term lexicon or tumble off a cliff into disuse.

    WSJ: Culturomics Looks at the Birth and Death of Words

  • The time between when a woman begins labor and 48 hours after the birth of a baby is a high-risk period during which millions of newborn babies and new mothers die each year.

    WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog

  • Like his new England team-mate and potential one-day opening partner, Jonathan Trott, Kieswetter represented the country of his birth at the Under-19 World Cup before moving to England.

    BBC: Craig Kieswetter is called into England's one-day squad

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