Ferguson responded to the Madeira-born winger's arrival by saying - "It looks like the fans have a new hero" - hardly helping to downplay the Beckham comparisons.

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"Germ-free" mice, born without the bugs and protected from their arrival, have shown a number of effects distinct from mice born in the normal way.

BBC: Bacteria in mouse gut affect development and behaviour

With German unification and the arrival in power of a new generation of leaders born after 1945, the French realise that Germany is shedding many of its former complexes, becoming more self-assured, assertive and nationalistic.

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News stories abound about couples eagerly awaiting the arrival of their historic and auspicious "Olympic babies, " with 18 million infants estimated to be born nationwide this year.

CNN: Beijing journal: An Olympic-sized baby boom

Sandy was four and I, Philip, wasn't yet born when in March 1932, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's own first child, a boy whose arrival twenty months earlier had been an occasion for national rejoicing, was kidnapped from his family's secluded new house in rural Hopewell, New Jersey.

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