1.   In a screenplay written with her longtime collaborator, Richard Guay, Ms. Savoca describes the different stages of ambivalence that herald the birth.

2.   The dawn of the nuclear age also heralded the birth of a new type of veteran.

3.   The Jumbotron screen in Times Square will herald the birth of the fourth book in the hugely successful Harry Potter series about an orphaned boy with wizard powers.

4.   Whose birth was heralded by a Victorian diamante stork with bundle?

5.   Newspapers and Saudi opposition groups in Britain claimed last week that the book heralded the birth a new, liberal opposition to the conservative ruling Al-Saud family.

6.   The Vatican did nothing to herald the birth of the document, the work of its most important theologian, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.