A smacked child 'is a successful child'

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HEADLINE: A smacked child 'is a successful child'
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/a-smacked-child-is-a-successful-child/story-e6frfku0-1225815786134
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YOUNG children smacked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those who have never been hit, a study has found.
According to the research, children smacked up to the age of six were likely as teenagers to perform better at school and were more likely to carry out volunteer work and to want to go to university than their peers who had never been physically disciplined.
Only those children who continued to be smacked into adolescence showed clear behavioral problems.

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HEADLINE: Love and honour, yes – but fidelity, non
SOURCE: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6974092.ece
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A prominent female psychologist has warmed the hearts of French men by shining an unusually sympathetic spotlight on the national sport in a book about adultery.
The church may not approve but Gallic womanisers will raise a glass to Maryse Vaillant for defending their right to stray now and then from the marital bed. Fidelity, she says, is overrated. The occasional fling could even be good for a marriage, she proclaims.
It will no doubt reinforce France’s reputation as home of the sexual free-for-all.

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HEADLINE: Women's feet getting bigger
SOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/fashionnews/6923064/Womens-feet-getting-bigger.html
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Women's feet are getting bigger, with the average shoe size up from a five to a six in the past five years, figures have found. Medical experts believe that the rise in size is down to the obesity epidemic, pointing to high-density foods such as pizza being eaten during puberty stimulating the growth hormone. The research from Debenhams found that in 2009, ladies' size nines sales increased by 23 per cent, while sales of size sixes jumped by 17 per cent.

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HEADLINE: Paid $6.8m for mansion, then wrecked it
SOURCE: http://www.news.com.au/money/property/m-house-trashed-to-make-way-for-mega-mansion/story-e6frfmd0-1225815426879
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ONE is a millionaire's mansion in Brisbane that apparently wasn't even worth renovating, ending up in a pile of rubble.
The other is one of Queensland's most expensive and exclusive homes that has gone on the market at Buderim on the Sunshine Coast after its American computer-whiz owner decided to call it quits after years of construction controversy.

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HEADLINE: Identical Twins Born in 2 Separate Decades
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581752,00.html?test=latestnews
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TAMPA, Fla. — Identical twin boys in Florida will get to celebrate their birthdays individually after they were born in separate decades.
Margarita Velasco delivered the twins by cesarean section at Tampa General Hospital.
Marcello was delivered just before midnight. His twin, Stephano, was delivered just as the new year began.
Their father Juan says it'll be good for each boy to have his own birthday party.

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HEADLINE: Doc's New Years Deal Includes New Breasts
SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/30/ap/strange/main6039138.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10
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As the final hours of 2009 wind down, many are making their final plans for a New Year's Eve party. But if music, champagne, and a midnight ball-drop aren't everything you're looking for, a New York doctor is offering more - a lot more.
The Park Avenue plastic surgeon has dubbed his offering the most expensive New Year's package in America - and it includes a new pair of breasts, reports CBS affiliate WFOR in Miami.

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HEADLINE: Demolition Gone Awry Leaves Leaning Tower in China
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581728,00.html?test=latestnews
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A Chinese city reportedly was left briefly with a new sightseeing attraction after a demolition gone awry created a leaning tower.
The 22-floor residential building in the city of Liuzhou was supposed to be demolished with explosives Wednesday, according to the Daily Mail

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HEADLINE: French Welcome 2010 by Torching 1,137 Cars
SOURCE LINK: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9461787
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Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year's Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.
Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France's big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year's Eve revelry.

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