Direct Link Video Player. The Direct Link is a hyperlink that opens the player in a full screen browser window. It's ideal when you'd like to send the video via email or post a link on Twitter or Facebook. When the hyperlink is clicked, a new browser window is opened with the video player in it.
Twin Births in the U.S., Like Never Before. More twins are being born in the United States than ever before. From 1980 to 2009, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate of twin births rose 76 percent. Now about one in 30 babies born in the United States is a twin.
When Atwood was writing The Handmaid's Tale in the early 1980s, about 3.6 million babies were born in the U.S. per year. Thirty years later, birth rates are again hovering in that range, after a boom in the early 2000s, with birth rates for women under 30 steadily declining.