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How was your childhood? Unhappy? Science says blame your brothers and sisters. A new British study has found that the more siblings, the unhappier the child. Only children, once thought to be lonely shut-ins, are apparently the happiest of the lot. Possible reasons for this surprising discovery may include family bullying, lack of personal space, parental fatigue and having to fight for a parent's attentions.

Though there'll be no more daily commune with the queen of talk once her show goes off the air at the end of this season, but you can bet we'll still be getting a healthy dose of Oprah in our lives, and she promises it will be "bitch"-free. Oprah's new network – aptly named the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) – will hit the airwaves this coming January 1. The queen herself took to the stage at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference in California and announced that her cable network will be "fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine." We are imagining it Oprah, and we can hardly wait.

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In a radically out of character turn of events, the Pope has given the go-ahead to safe sex time. Well, some of the time. Pope Benedict XVI has condoned the use of condoms in some scenarios to stop the spread of AIDS. In an interview with a German journalist, the pope said using condoms was not “a real or moral solution,”