Teenage pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenaged or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13–19) becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women who have not reached legal adulthood, which varies across the world, who become pregnant.The average age of menarche (first menstrual period) in the United States is 12 years old, though this figure varies by ethnicity and weight, and first ovulation occurs only irregularly until after this. Teenage_pregnancy
Hornwort This is an article about the non-vascular plants. The name Hornwort is also often applied to an aquatic plant Ceratophyllum demersum in the family CeratophyllaceaeHornworts are a group of bryophytes, or non-vascular plants, comprising the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. The flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte plant. Hornwort
Gay Activists Alliance Gay Activists Alliance was founded in New York City in December 1969 after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) including Brenda Howard, Altan Zimbabwe and Christopher Charles who wanted to form a non-violent "single issue, politically neutral, militant organization" whose goal was to "secure basic human rights, dignity and freedom for all gay people." Gay_Activists_Alliance
Virtue epistemology Virtue epistemology is a contemporary philosophical approach to epistemology that stresses the importance of intellectual (epistemic) virtues. It combines the central tenets of virtue theory (also called “virtue ethics”), with classical epistemological approaches.Intellectual virtue has been a subject of philosophy since the works of Plato and Aristotle, but virtue epistemology is a development in the contemporary analytic tradition. Virtue_epistemology
Liberty Mutual Founded in 1912, Boston-based “’Liberty Mutual Group’” is a diversified global insurer and the fifth largest property and casualty insurer in the United States based on 2008 direct written premium. The company offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers compensation, commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, general liability, global specialty, group disability,fire and surety. Liberty_Mutual
Leo Connellan Leo Connellan (November 30, 1928 Portland, Maine. He grew up in Rockland, Maine, and lived at the time of his death in Sprague, Connecticut. Connellan's rough, "everyman" lyricism won him the admiration of such poet-critics as Karl Shapiro, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, David B. Leo_Connellan
Sabrina Tavernise Sabrina Tavernise is an American journalist who is currently the Istanbul bureau chief of The New York Times. She previously reported for the Times from Iraq, Lebanon, and Russia.She received an honorable mention in the 2003 Kurt Schork awards for "her depth and human insight in covering Russia". Sabrina_Tavernise
Adam Niklewicz Adam Niklewicz is an American sculptor and illustrator (born in Zamosc, Poland) who earned his BFA in graphic communications from Washington University in 1989, and his MFA in sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2006. Niklewicz is the recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2006 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and the 2008 Artists Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture. Adam_Niklewicz