"We hope to create a future where no baby is left alone, where no mother dies while giving birth, " she says.

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He wrote some of the talking-baby scripts while working alone late at night in his office, sipping a little Oban whiskey and listening to Radiohead on his iPod, he says.

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" The narrator is left alone with the baby, who says evenly: "Well?

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She quotes one academic who says higher standards are demanded of people working on their own with animals, than of those left alone with a baby.

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The second woman to be sentenced to death by stoning in 2012, she spent two months shackled, alone with her baby, in Omdurman prison, near the capital Khartoum.

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"Very often existing parents might want to try for another baby, but having kids already makes it impossible to get precious time alone, " he said.

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For much of the past 20 years, the post-baby boom generations have been postponing marriage, buying homes, and raising kids alone, with more than 1 in 5 people between the ages of 20 and 30 now living under state poverty thresholds.

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For example, a few years back, the American Association of Retired People recognized that baby boomers wanted little to do with the geriatric tone set by its publication, Modern Maturity, let alone its entire organization.

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