| January 18, 2005 | - A 66-year-old woman gave birth in Romania.
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New York Times
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| January 3, 2005 | - Recent studies showed that women are using less birth control.
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The Washington Post
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| December 24, 2004 | -
Adoptees and adoptive parents were calling on Fox TV to stop the broadcast of a game show called “Who's Your Daddy,” in which an adopted woman has to pick her biological father from a line-up; she wins a prize if she picks correctly.
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Reuters
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| October 22, 2004 | - A study found that the children of older fathers have a greater risk of going crazy later in life.
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British Medical Journal
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| October 20, 2004 | - Single mothers are less likely to give birth to boys, a study found.
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New Scientist
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| September 15, 2004 | - The U.S. Department of Labor said that the average working woman spends twice as much time doing household tasks and caring for children as the average working man; working women also sleep an average one hour less than working men. The survey also said that the average adult has about five hours of leisure time a day and spends half of it watching TV.
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New York Times
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| September 3, 2004 | -
Chinese zookeepers were showing videos to a giant panda in an attempt to teach her how to take care of her two cubs.
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Agence France-Presse
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| August 14, 2004 | - A twin delivered two sets of twins on her birthday.
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Associated Press
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| July 19, 2004 | - Researchers found that monkeys with good mothers are less likely to be aggressive, even if they have a gene that codes for aggression.
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New Scientist
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| July 6, 2004 | - The British House of Lords voted to limit the right of parents to spank their children.
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New York Times
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| June 27, 2004 | - An Iranian mother claimed to have given birth to a frog.
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BBC
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| June 5, 2004 | - Colombian police arrested a woman for drugging a pregnant mother and kidnapping her unborn child, whom she cut out of the mother's womb with a kitchen knife.
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BBC
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| February 7, 2004 | - It was revealed that two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park zoo have been homosexual lovers for years. They once tried to hatch a rock, and when their keeper gave them a fertile egg to hatch "they did a great job" raising the chick. Scientists, it was noted, have observed homosexuality in more than 450 species.
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Guardian
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| January 14, 2004 | - A 22-year-old Palestinian
mother killed herself and four Israelis. "I was hoping," she said in a videotaped statement, "to be the first woman where parts of my body can fly everywhere."
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ABC News
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| December 26, 2003 | - A Swedish
mother was arrested for trying to bake her five-month-old baby.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| December 24, 2003 | -
Mad cow disease was discovered in the United States for the first time, in a Holstein cow that was too sick to walk but was nonetheless slaughtered and sold for meat. The mad Holstein's brain and spinal column were sent to a rendering plant somewhere, possibly to be turned into dog or chicken food; there was no word on whether the cow's blood was processed to be fed to young calves as a milk supplement. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venemen, a former lobbyist for the beef industry, insisted that even meat from a mad cow is safe to eat, and she promised to feed beef to her family for Christmas.
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Guardian, New York Times
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| December 18, 2003 | - The Journal of Marriage and Family
reported that most American parents yell at their kids.
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Reuters
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| December 16, 2003 | - A study found that teens would like to hear more about sex from their parents.
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New York Times
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| November 27, 2003 | - Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, decided, three weeks after the premature birth of their daughter, to name her Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor.
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New York Times
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| October 28, 2003 | - Neuroscientists determined that motherhood makes female rats
smarter, calmer, and more courageous.
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Reuters
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| September 18, 2003 | - and Danish scientists discovered that women who drink wine have an easier time getting pregnant.
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Agence France-Presse
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| September 15, 2003 | - A fertility scientist named Panayiotis Zavos announced that he had created human-cow embryos that were theoretically viable but denied that he planned to allow such a hybrid to be implanted in a woman's womb.
"We are not trying to create monsters," he said.
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News.com.au
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| September 11, 2003 | - A leading British fertility expert called for more research on some in vitro techniques and accused doctors of experimenting on children.
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BBC
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| August 28, 2003 | - In Nigeria, the young mother who was sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock begged for mercy as she nursed her baby in court; her lawyers argued that the child was conceived while the mother was married and that under Islamic Law a baby can gestate in its mother's womb for five years.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 8, 2003 | - Americans were spritzing their offspring with "ChildCalm," a spray that purports to mollify unruly children.
| Source:
Charlotte Observer
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| November 27, 2001 | - of Worcester, Massachusetts, announced that it had cloned a human embryo in order to mine it for stem cells; the company said that it had taken “extreme measures” to prevent the embryo from being placed in a womb.
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| October 16, 2001 | - In Nigeria, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of premarital sex.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Men who violate the ban will be fined one cow, as will unmarried girls who become pregnant.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Florida's
supreme court was considering a constitutional amendment that would enshrine the right of pigs to spacious quarters while pregnant.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A Chilean boy was found living with a pack of wild dogs in Talcahuano; the boy, who had lived with the dogs for two years, described nursing from a pregnant bitch when he was unable to find water.
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| June 5, 2001 | - Nkosi Johnson, a twelve-year-old South African boy, died of AIDS; Nkosi once managed to shame President Thabo Mbeki into walking out of an AIDS conference after he pleaded with the government to give AZT to pregnant mothers, a course of treatment that might have prevented his own infection.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Finnish researchers found that babies whose mothers swallow capsules of certain benign bacteria while pregnant are less likely to develop eczema and asthma, which supports the theory that excessive cleanliness contributes to these conditions.
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| February 20, 2001 | - Proctor & Gamble filed patent applications for panty liners that will be able to tell when a woman is pregnant or about to ovulate or when she has infections such as chlamydia, thrush, or HIV.
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| January 23, 2001 | - An Islamic court in Nigeria carried out the public flogging of a teenage girl who was forced to have sex with three men; after receiving her 100 lashes, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who gave birth to a daughter last month, thanked Allah for her punishment and walked home to her village.
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| December 26, 2000 | - After a Swedish study found that pregnant women who drink five cups of coffee a day double their chances of having a miscarriage, the president of the National Coffee Association claimed the study proved that women could safely drink four cups a day.
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| December 19, 2000 | - A United Nations report said that 79 million girls were “missing” in South Asia because of infanticide and the abortion of female fetuses.
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| November 28, 2000 | - Teachers in Chicago were issuing report cards judging the quality of the parenting received by schoolchildren.
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| November 7, 2000 | - A fifteen-year-old boy with a loaded 9mm pistol took a pregnant teacher and eighteen other children hostage in a Dallas school; police saved the day.
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| August 1, 2000 | - The House of Representatives voted unanimously to ban the execution of pregnant women in response to remarks by Vice President Al Gore that a “the principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case.” British Columbia asked the Canadian supreme court to affirm the validity of gay marriage.
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