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.
And itâs not only a matter of how many people lived before we appeared, but how many have died. So whatâs the answer? According to estimates by demographic researchers at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), as of 2015, there have been 108.2 billion who have ever been born. Taking away the roughly 7.4 billion who are alive today, we get 100.8 billion who have died before us. There are almost 14x more people dead than alive!