Bloomberg - Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) — As summer fades to fall, a mainstay of American letters lurches toward oblivion. The Weekly World News, home to Batboy, the Risen Elvis and a host of writers who flirted with comic genius, is set to go toes up at the end of
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Baby lost in war found at age 40
China Post - A Vietnamese man has been reunited with his family 40 years after he was separated from his mother as a baby in a fierce battle near the river that then divided the country, his father said Thursday. Nguyen Quang Son, then six months old, slipped
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CBS News - A new study suggests that people of different cultures recognize baby talk, even if they speak a different language. The results showed indigenous Shuar speakers who had also been taught Spanish in a remote Ecuadoran village were able to distinguish
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BusinessWeek - The mother who launched the Baby Einstein child video empire by making videos in her basement for her own children says she’s stung by a controversy over whether the videos help babies learn or get in the way — and insists they were never designed
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Euro baby boomlet
Chicago Sun-Times - LONDON — Europe is in the midst of a baby boomlet after fretting for 20 years that European women weren’t having enough children to replenish graying populations and sustain economic growth. At least 16 countries, stretching from Iceland to Italy
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After death of Baby Jasmine, skid row workers again ask why
Los Angeles Times - The call came last week to the county’s child welfare hotline from an employee at the Union Rescue Mission. Something seemed wrong with the 2-month-old girl who had arrived with her mother at the skid row shelter in June. The mother was acting
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