Names Of People In Line For The British Throne

According to the Wikipedia entry, which obviously pulled from some authoritative source--because, let's face it, after a while, you just can't keep making this stuff up--there are 873 people in the line of succession to the throne of England, including...
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If Only Your Kid Was Cool Enough For One Of These Plagiocephaly Helmets

Sometimes parents go to extremes to conform to externally imposed societal norms, ordering elaborate and expensive medical procedures be carried out on their children, just because they think their heads have an abnormal shape or appearance that'll keep them from...
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More On Kids In Nice Restaurants, from KCRW

DT reader Mike sends in this clip from Santa Monica public radio station KRCW's "Good Food" program. The host, restauranteur , talks with LA Magazine food critic Patrick Kuh about taking kids to nice restaurants. They cover some of the...
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Get Out Of The Delivery Room With A Note From The NYT's Doctor

Sure, honey, I'll go into the delivery room with you--if you want me never to be sexually attracted to you ever again. That's the somewhat dire subtext--um, no, actually it's the text-- of Dr. Keith Ablow's column in The New...
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Aeon Flux Drives A Stokke Xplory

For a new dad, there's a threshhold, a tipping point, a point of no return, the point at which you realize not just your life, but your whole outlook on the world has changed irrevocably. Not sure if you've crossed...
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Book Review Contest: How Little Lori Visited Times Square

Title: How Little Lori Visited Times Square Author/Illustrator: Amos Vogel/ Maurice Sendak Reviewer: Eric Schulmiller ìThis is a very funny book and should not be read while drinking orange juice or you will spill it!" Truer words may never...
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Two Wooden Bikemakers, Both Alike In Dignity

In fair Brooklyn where we lay our scene, From mid-nineties grudge break to new mutiny. and so on and so forth, you know the rest. Bloods and Crips. Sharks and Jets. Hell's Angels and, um, another equally big, scary biker...
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Three CA Supreme Court Rulings Firm Up Rights Of Gay Parents

Except for some sperm donors somewhere--who, it may be relevant to point out, aren't considered fathers under California state law--no men were involved in the three gay parenting cases decided by the CA Supreme Court today. But they could still...
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