Babble Wrap 29.10.08: Woman Smuggles Chorizo Sausages In Nappies
Posted by Amber Robinson at 9:29 AM on October 29, 2008

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Custom officers make a spicy discovery
A 21-year-old woman tried to smuggle nearly five and a half pounds of chorizo sausage concealed in several nappies insider her car at a US/Mexico border crossing. The Monitor
The new baby boomers
After years of declining fertility, the Australian fertility rate jumped to 1.93 babies for each woman last year, up from 1.81 in 2006.
SMH
A new test tells women how close they are to menopause
A new test tells women how many years they are away from their menopause so they can better plan pregnancies in later life. Daily Mail
McDonalds to provide clean, free wifi
McDonalds plans to launch “family friendly” free WiFi services to its stores in a multimillion-dollar three-year deal with network security provider Earthwave. The Australian
Blame your genes for bad behaviour
An Australian psychologist has aggregated the results of hundreds of studies on human behaviour and found 40% can be put down to human genetics. The Age
England to start sex ed. in kindergarten
With one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, the British government is bringing sex education to all schools in England – including kindergartens. SMH
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