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Advent of the virgin births: Women who have never been in a relationship paying £5,000 to get pregnant

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Dozens of young heterosexual women have had virgin births after undergoing IVF in Britain, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Some are using the £5,000 fertility treatment to bypass the need to involve a man, and others so that they can save themselves for a ‘special relationship’. Doctors said last night at least 25 straight women had given birth in the past five years despite being virgins. But campaigners for the traditional family said the ‘distorted’ move turned babies into little more than ‘teddy bears’ to be ‘picked off the shelf’. Religious groups said it undermined the

Toyota’s Top Female Executive Arrested In Japan On Drug Charges

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Toyota Motor Corp.'s first senior female executive who was appointed head of public relations just weeks ago — has been arrested in Japan for allegedly importing the prescription painkiller oxycodone in violation of the country's narcotics laws. A total of 57 pills were discovered by Japanese customs officials on June 11 inside a package that Hamp mailed to herself from Kentucky, declaring the contents to be a necklace, according to Japanese news reports. Oxycodone is legal in the U.S. with a prescription.

Elizabeth Holmes still won’t explain how her $9 billion technology actually works

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On June 3, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a company that developed a revolutionary blood test that relies only on a drop of blood, appeared on Charlie Rose's show to talk about her company and in theory, about some of the science behind it. But the essential question about Theranos's technology remains unanswered after the segment: How exactly does what Holmes invented work?

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