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The nanny state is going after moms. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation. Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn...

Pamela Anderson, the Canadian Actress who was to host the Canadian Music Awards, has abruptly cancelled her appearance . According to her spokesperson, Ms Anderson experienced a medical emergency which forced her to leave Halifax and return home to Los Angeles early this morning. Although no official details of the incident were given, Halifax Live has learned that Ms. Anderson, while dining at Da Maurizio with former F1 race car driver Eddy Irvine, experienced what one fellow patron labelled as a “sudden leakage”. According to witnesses who did not want to be identified, Ms. Anderson started to shriek while clutching...

Wet-nursing makes a comeback in Hollywood By Martin Patience The Web site for Certified Household Staffing appears like a throwback to Victorian times, when the moneyed classes hired teams of servants. The site sports images of butlers with bow ties, nannies in black and white uniforms and gamekeepers dressed in tweeds. But the agency offers another service associated with times long past: wet nurses. Robert Feinstock, 65, the owner of the Beverly Hills, Calif., company, believes his business is one of the few in the United States that offers wet nurses, or women who suckle other peoples' children. He says...