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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

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Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

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The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

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Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.

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For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

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The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age". . . In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

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One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

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