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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Top 100 Baby Names - Pollution 'cuts boy baby numbers'


Pollution 'cuts boy baby numbers'
BBC - Boys are more vulnerable in the womb High levels of air pollution are reducing the number of boys born and could be linked to increased rates of miscarriage, research suggests. The Sao Paulo team examined birth registries for numbers of babies born between January 2001 and December 2003 polluted areas 51.7% of the babies born were male - but in the

These days, babies come with a lot of baggage
Kansas City Star - Babies dont travel light these days. Case in point: Our nearly 5-month-old adorable baby niece Elena takes to the road with more stuff than her entire extended family combined. Seriously. Yes, indeed. Apparently, babies must now be packaged prior to slumber

Two Wheels and a Mission
New York Times - In Ghana, West Africa, babies born with disabilities are routinely poisoned or left to die alone; those who survive face a lifetime of begging on the streets.

Babies for sale
MWeb - online advertisement on the Chinese subsidiary of eBay offering babies for sale, a newspaper reported on Thursday an active black market in babies that are bought or abducted from

Doctors: Keep babies off their sides
USA Today - climb again, driven by higher-than-average deaths among blacks and babies of all races in day care age, with SIDS killing more babies older than 1 month old than

Busting Myths? It May Be Fine To Feed Babies Spicy Foods
10News.com - Jalapenos And Curry For Babies? That May Be OKPOSTED: 5:32 am PDT October 10, 2005 Ditch the rice cereal and mashed peas, and make way for enchiladas, curry and even -- gasp! -- hot peppers. everything you think you know about feeding babies. It turns out most

Babies put up for auction at eBay's China website
Interfax Information Agency China - internet user set up an online auction for babies on eBay Eachnet, the China arm of C2C internet The online auction for babies was posted on October 16 by a

Big Answers from Little People
Scientific American - to the people who may be best able to answer them: babies. Spelke, whose sprawling laboratory in William James Hall