Australia is in the grip of a babyboom, figures showed on Friday, after the government urgedcouples to do their patriotic duty and "have one for yourcountry".

Australia recorded 261,400 births in 2005, the highestnumber since 1992, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said,pushing the national population up to almost 20.5 million.

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A man wearing a purple women's bathing suit and carrying a flare gunwas arrested after he told a bartender he was going to "get rid of allthe dirt bags in Key West," authorities said.

Jeffrey C. Anderson, 55, was charged with carrying a concealedfirearm Monday after he brandished the flare gun, which ( Read more... )

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May 9, 2006-Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, andsome like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, accordingto a new analysis of alcohol consumption among members of a rhesusmacaque social group.

These and other observed behaviors strongly correspond with humanpatterns of alcohol use. Researchers attribute a predisposition ( Read more... )

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President Bush's morning security briefing is wrapping up. Donald Rumsfeld is concluding his part and says, "Finally, three Brazilian soldiers were killed yesterday near Baghdad ( Read more... )

yardin: i would actually love nothing more than to talk with you, but my passport is lost and
some terrorist child is having a celebratory chemistry class making bombs out of chlorine right
now and I have to get a new one in less than two weeks because I leave for Israel...

yardin: sooo, i gotta go

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