Sunday, February 18, 2007

China Prepares for 'Golden Pig' Baby Boom

In China, city-dwellers are only allowed one child, so many are timing their pregnancies according to the traditional lunar calendar to promote the most auspicious birth. Some newspapers have called 2007 an especially lucky "golden pig year," which only comes around every 60 years. And that is spurring a baby boom. National Public Radio has more on the story...

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