Instead,as May writes in her new book, "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Now these worries were raised by John Locke the great British philosopher, and he thought, this is too big a pill to swallow.

这是约翰·洛克提出的,他是伟大的英国哲学家，他认为，这个问题太大。

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The most idealistic hopes attached to the Pill were that it would solve the problem of overpopulation,and poverty;

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Today,12 million American women take the Pill, making it the leading contraceptive in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

It gradually became clear that the Pill was not a panacea for all those societal ills.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

They used the Pill as an important tool to gain control over their lives.

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Nor did the Pill spark the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Emergency contraceptives, like the so-called morning-after pill, can prevent pregnancy if they are taken within 120 hours of unprotected intercourse.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

(OMITTED) May adds that today's Pill has little in common with the one on the market in 1960.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

In May 1960,the U.S.Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first birth control pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

If those compounds can be isolated, maybe someday you'll be able to take an anti-cancer pill, but for us coffee lovers, the answer may just be another refill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30