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War Spinsters ... And the debt we owe them

The slaughter of the first world war left two million women with no-one to marry. But they just got on with life. Could we learn from their example? By Julie Davidson

THE future, 2007: "Sex is for fun, IVF for babies" - a recent headline in the New Scientist celebrating the unstoppable advance of in vitro fertilisation.