61.   Think of San Francisco General Hospital as the finish line for all those folks who nine months ago decided they wanted the first baby of the new millennium.

62.   They found the first baby in a hospital bathroom, a crying newborn whose mother had disappeared.

63.   This time, when we heard the heartbeat, it was more than Jim and me marveling at the first trace of our first baby.

64.   To a couple eagerly expecting their first baby, the advice to terminate was devastating.

65.   We got married in college, and our first baby was born the night before my first final at Harvard Business School.

66.   When the first baby came, Leonor Shahid, his mother, was going to quit her job to baby-sit while her son and daughter-in-law were at work.

67.   When the first baby came along, my mother said I could come home if I was ready.

68.   When I was a young mother, my first baby cried and cried.

69.   And while Gore tried for extra credit by noting that the first baby born in Iowa this year was black, it may have backfired.

70.   But Seed strongly defended his ambition to clone the first human baby.