It’s a girl! Or isn’t it?

The gossip mags seem convinced a royal baby girl is on the way, after Duchess of Cambridge apparently let slip the letter “d” while talking to a well wisher. In the incident a week ago in the English fishing town of Grimsby, the pregnant duchess was given a teddy bear by a local woman

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Are we Having Babies All Wrong? A Q&A With Legendary Midwife Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin started delivering babies in 1970 while on a hippie cross-country trip known as “The Caravan.” She had no medical training, just a masters degree in English a gut feeling that women deserved kinder, gentler births. When the hundreds of Caravaners settled in Tennessee on “The Farm,” Gaskin and several other women began delivering the community’s babies at home and also opened one of the first, non-hospital birthing centers in the country.

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The Science of Romance: Why We Love

The last time you had sex, there was arguably not a thought in your head. O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that–truth be told–you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic matters as balancing your checkbook or planning your week.

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Tufts University: No sex in room while roommate is present

A new policy at Tufts University prohibits students in dorms from having sex while their roommate is in the room, according to the university’s 2009-2010 student handbook. The Massachusetts university’s formal rule also bars so-called “sexiling” — exiling a roommate from the room so the other roommate can engage in sexual activity.

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