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pill

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A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

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By 2012, her stand-up special Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff – in which she joked about taking the morning-after pill the night before "because I'm smart" – was the second-highest rated Comedy Central special in five years (beating the likes of Chelsea Handler and Donald Glover).

"Essentially the idea is simple; you just swallow a pill with the nano particles, which are decorated with antibodies or molecules that detect other molecules," explained Andrew Conrad, head of life sciences inside the Google's "moonshot" X research lab to WSJD Live conference in California Tuesday.

After Willie Mason spilt the pill on the first tackle of the game, Reynolds swung a lovely long ball from the scrum re-start for Rona to open the scoring after just 61 seconds.

Neither is the pill 100% effective at preventing pregnancy.

But it ended badly: the strand was photographed trying to take steroids, which was doubly tragic since, a) it had no discernible mouth and, b) the steroid pill was approximately 3,000 times its size.

The news will be a bitter pill for staff after Desmond recently sold Channel 5 for £450m to MTV owner Viacom.

Michele Bachelet, the country's first female president, and now head of UN Women, made significant steps towards legalizing the morning-after pill in 2008 but never even touched the issue of abortion.

No one can deny that the pill is invaluable for preventing unwanted pregnancy, and that it affords women greater sexual agency.

But the downside is that the pill seems to have made women complacent about their sexual health, especially in a student environment, where casual sex is quite common.

If you're on the pill, the assumption that your sexual partner is "clean" is all too tempting in the heat of the moment.

On the social media app Yik Yak, a post that trended in my university town joked about the number of girls asking for the morning-after pill following a popular night out.

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