The little magnet on the refrigerator sums it up perfectly. It shows a baby with wispy, wild new hair pressed up against a window staring at a brand-new bird with wispy, wild new feathers.

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Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen.

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Is working from home the new calling in sick? Ashleigh Harris, marketing director for Gyrobike, works from her dining room table at her home in San Francisco.

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Mexico’s spring break king–Cancun–is rebounding quickly from last year’s triple blow to its tourism industry caused by the country’s swine flu epidemic, drug violence and a global economic crisis.

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Tyler Bozak scores on Oilers goalie Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers as part of his three-point night in the Leafs’ 6-4 victory Saturday night at the ACC.

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About 24,000 Mississippi Coast students – more than one-fourth of the school population – are vaccinated against swine flu, a magic number for the health of all ages in the six-county region.

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FOOT FETISH . . . Remember the red Naughty Monkey shoes She Who Was Governor wore during the VP campaign, the ones that gave columnists and bloggers fodder for a zillion pointless stories? She bought them at Shoefly, a trendy Juneau store.

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Via VaccineNewsDaily.com, which I’m linking to in the News Gatherers list: India likely to start H1N1 flu vaccination next week .

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New York Islanders captain Doug Weight will have shoulder surgery that will finish his season — and could also end his 18-year NHL career.

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In the last eleven days, almost 300 people have been vaccinated against the virus, after hearing about the story of Hank Holt.

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