• Over years of open houses, a busy listing agent will surely run into an old seller, or their children or grand kids who grew up in the home.

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  • Recent research suggests that generous retirement benefits may result in fewer babies being born, since people no longer need children to insure against an impoverished old age.

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  • In 1947, Watson married Rosa Lee Carlton, the daughter of an old-time fiddler, and they had two children, Eddy Merle (named after Eddy Arnold and Merle Travis), born in 1949, and daughter Nancy Ellen, born in 1951.

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  • It has also taken the more unusual step of allowing babies as young as six months old to have an MMR jab, if the children live or travel to the epidemic 'hotspots' of Swansea or Neath Port Talbot.

    BBC: Measles jab advice 'getting through' in Swansea

  • Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.

    ECONOMIST: School examinations

  • Several children, including an 18-month-old baby girl, were among the dead, and more than 30 people were wounded.

    BBC: Israel to step up military operations

  • It said that at the time he died he was 34 years old, married to an Israeli woman and had two children.

    BBC: Israel's mystery Prisoner X 'was Australian Ben Zygier'

  • At the local level, parental responsibility now includes the task of holding corporations responsible for the foods foisted on children, an important new permutation of the old notion of in loco parentis.

    NPR: Rabid Reader: 'Fat Land' and U.S. Supersizing

  • The Aisenbergs said they lived in a safe community, so they sometimes left the windows and doors unlocked in the single-story, ranch-style home they shared with their three children -- an 8-year-old son, 4-year-old daughter and 5-month-old Sabrina.

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  • By and large, the children in the movie cleave instinctively to an Old Testament view of wrongs inflicted and answered, whereas most of the adults, who seem at once weaker and more disciplined, subscribe, at least in theory, to Christian forgiveness.

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  • Last month the National Rifle Association called on communities to arm teachers or place armed guards in schools as a solution following a Newtown, Connecticut, shooting spree in which a 20-year-old gunman killed seven adults and 20 children at an elementary school.

    CNN: Teacher talks armed student into giving up, police say

  • She has been a patient at Texas Children's since she was five months old and had an open-heart "arterial switch" to repair the problem in 1991 when she was 11.

    WSJ: Facing Lifesaving Heart Surgery, Twice

  • Smith says she's heard of some pushback among parents -- including the mother of an 18-month-old and a 3-year-old who told an educator who subscribes to Smith's campaign that her children already knew how to handle weapons.

    CNN: Before the play date, the gun talk

  • The same day, the then-73-year- old Jones gave his children a majority interest in the partnerships, claiming an average 62% discount.

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  • Add to this the reasonable Two Oceans restaurant, superb springtime flora, a funicular railway to an old lighthouse and wild beaches complete with shipwrecks, and there is plenty to keep children entertained for a whole day.

    BBC: Kid-friendly Cape Town

  • Imagine the scene: wave after wave of Dakota aircraft swooping through a canyon to land at an improvised airstrip, fashioned from a stony field only days earlier by local women, children and old folk.

    ECONOMIST: Wartime derring-do on a bleak black mountain

  • But I think, you know, the kids eventually might see just I think what I noticed, this family, the children, who are there's two teenage girls and an eight-year-old boy, especially the teenagers, they noticed that their mother was stressed, that she was stressed by this issue.

    NPR: Child Hunger: Nutritious Food Tough To Afford

  • And in San Diego, a measles outbreak in 2008 was traced to an unvaccinated 7-year-old boy who contracted the disease in Switzerland and passed it on to 11 other unvaccinated children, including in his family, his school and his pediatrician's office.

    WSJ: Where Could The Next Outbreak Of Measles Be?

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