This was the must-have baby product when I was pregnant, and along with all the other moms of newborns that I knew at the time, I bought one, despite the nagging doubt that I was wasting $40 on a blob of plastic. The buzz on the Internet swayed me – rave reviews from other moms [...]
Tags: baby milestones, baby products, bumbo, potty, Potty Training, sitting up
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Beagle puppy Ruby Puppy, or Ruppy for short, is the world’s first transgenic dog. Transgenic means that she has genes from another animal. Ruppy, and four other beagle puppies, were given a florescent gene from a sea anenome which makes her glow red under ultraviolet light.
Ruppy and her sisters are all identical clones of each [...]
Tags: cloning, fertility treatments, glow in the dark, infertility, puppies, transgenics
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Sonia Sotomayer is one of the most remarkable Supreme Court nominees in history. If her nomination is approved by Senate, she’ll be the first Hispanic to serve on the Supreme Court, and only the third woman.
She was born in New York to Puerto Rican parents, and was raised in the Bronx. Her father died when [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Education, mothering, sonia sotomayor, supreme court
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Geri Halliwell, once of the Spice Girls, threw a birthday party for her daughter, Bluebell this week. The tabloids in her native UK were predictably hiding in the bushes outside her home to see if any of the other Spice Girls were invited – Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm, Baby Spice and Sporty Spice – [...]
Tags: emma bunton, geri halliewell, Melanie Chisholm, skinny jeans, smoking, spice girls, weight loss
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The arduous story of the 13-year-old boy suffering from Hodkin’s Lymphoma is causing controversy from the Midwest to the west coast.
Daniel Hauser, from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in January. He underwent the first of six planned rounds of chemotherapy the same month. Then, he refused any more treatment, apparently with the [...]
Tags: California, cancer, chemotherapy, daniel hauser, hodgkins lymphoma, minnesota
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