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Online, they post photos of smiling male couples holding infants still slick from their mothers’ birth canals, celebrating a triumph of “modern family building.”

As America expanded by building canals, steamboats and early railroads, demand soared for wage labor in factories, transportation and among office workers like clerks.

Woo is at the edge of the pier, watching the water surge through the canal.

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In it, Sir Cliff can be seen piloting a hovercraft along the city's canal, and inventing the legendary Brumburger, resulting in a "mildly surreal burger-related parade" through the city.

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Some of my schoolmates say the Americans are planning to build a canal in Panama.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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