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biological clock is ticking

Of a woman, there is a limited amount of time in which to be able to conceive a child. I've been very successful in my career and want to see it to its fullest, but I would also love to have kids, and I know my biological clock is ticking. For women who may want to have children, their biological clocks are always ticking—a concern that men never have to worry about.
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clock is ticking, the

The time (for something to be done) is passing quickly; hurry up. For example, The clock is ticking on that project. This allusion to a stopwatch is often used as an admonition to speed something up. It also is used in more specific form- one's biological clock is ticking-meaning that a woman may soon be too old to bear a child, as in Her biological clock is ticking-she just turned forty.
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In the well-publicized Gwen Araujo case, two men were convicted of second-degree murder and each sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after a California jury refused to buy their "transgender panic" defense that they killed the teen in October 2002 due to the shock of discovering that she was biologically male.
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It redefines race and ethnicity as follows: Race--a socially constructed classification and therefore not determined biologically but socially and psychologically (Robert Jason, March 23, 2004).
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The pressure is in the form of a petition recommending that some materials be prohibited from being "disposed in the ground where it keeps the waste load potentially biologically active--and capable of generating a whole second wave of dangerous leachate and landfill gases when site engineering systems fail--effectively forever," the coalition says.
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The information relates to the annual average effort exerted over the reference period 1998-2002, on the one hand, by vessels longer than or equal to 15 metres in the waters concerned, outside the biologically-sensitive area and, on the other, vessels greater than or equal to 10m in the biologically sensitive area.
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Given the consequences of Nazi racial science, people of Ashkenazi descent have reason to fear the notion that they're somehow biologically distinct.
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A new position statement that reaffirms ASAE's historical role as a leader in biologically based engineering practice and education has been recently adopted by ASAE.
ASAE presents position on accreditation of biologically-based engineering curricula. (Inside ASAE)
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