America's birth rate fell to a record low last year.

美国去年的出生率降到了创纪录的最低点。

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Charlie Chaplin's parents separated a year after his birth in 18. He lived with his mother and elder brother in a flat in London.

查理·卓别林在18年出生一年后父母分居，他与母亲和哥哥住在伦敦的一套公寓里。

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Reed's research shows that though nothing can truly change our DNA, environmental differences that a child experiences before birth and in their first year can sometimes affect the way the DNA behaves, making even identical twins into very different people.

里德的研究表明，虽然没有什么能真正改变我们的 DNA，但孩子在出生前和出生后第一年所经历的环境差异有时能够影响 DNA 的表现方式，甚至使同卵双胞胎变成两个很不同的人。

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A year ago around 90 percent did. Also,more women receive care before giving birth than ever before, and more midwives are present at births.

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Internet postings for Farouk1986 -- apparently a combination of his name and birth year -- reveal a young man who fought feelings of loneliness and struggled with balancing his life as a Muslim with the temptations of the secular world around him.

CNN: Online poster appears to be Christmas Day bomb suspect

So as 2012 begins and we toast the birth of a new year, I invite you to take a sip from the RedNek wine glass, think of Pat Gunkel and write down on that cocktail napkin the happy returns you can expect when you invest in creating a culture of ideas.

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The region suffers disproportionately from Russia's demographic curse a 142m-strong population shrinking by 700, 000 a year because of low birth rates and vodka-sodden ill-health.

ECONOMIST: Russia does not exactly soar in its Asian backyard