What's wrong with carrying your baby in a sling, carrier, wrap, backpack, frontpack, or other 'baby-wearing' device? Manufacturers of the pain reliever Motrin would have you believe it causes backache, neck ache, shoulder pain, and other ills that make moms cranky and crazy. And they've created a new ad campaign built on this premise.

As you might guess, real moms (not those imaged by ad agency creatives) are seeing red and have rallied to tell Motrin how ill-conceived and insulting the ads are. Kathy at WiredPen.com has more details, plus the original clip of the commercial, a YouTube parody, and real moms' responses.

What's more important to voters, competence or attractiveness in a candidate?

In this latest election go-round, we seem to have gotten a clear-cut answer. But a study recently released by researchers at Northwestern University indicates that women can't make it on abilities alone and that their looks really matter to voters.

CNN has more on the study, including the reasons why men need only be competent - and not necessarily good-looking - to get elected.

Thomas Beatie, better known as the Pregnant Man, caught Barbara Walters off-guard when he announced he was pregnant for the second time during an interview that aired on ABC's 20/20 last night. The admission came when Walters questioned Beatie as to why he hadn't resumed his hormone therapy after giving birth to a daughter, Susan, on June 29, 2008.

The interview was Beatie's first since becoming a father; he and his wife Nancy did not speak to the the media after Susan's birth, although the pregnancy, labor and delivery were filmed for a British documentary that will air on the Discovery Health Channel next week. ABC News has clips of the interview, along with an extensive article about Thomas' childhood and young adult years as a female, his life with Nancy, and his decision to have sexual reassignment surgery.

Related article: Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie - His Decision to Go Public With His Pregnancy

What's the price of education for girls in Afghanistan? Being doused with acid by men who don't want them to learn. The New York Times reports that fifteen girls and teachers were attacked by men on motorcycles on Wednesday:

The men squirted the acid from water bottles onto three groups of students and teachers walking to school Wednesday, principal Mehmood Qaderi said. Some of the girls have burns only on their school uniforms but others will have scars on their faces.

One teenager still cannot open her eyes after being hit in the face with acid.

''Today the school is open, but there are no girls,'' Qaderi said Thursday. ''Yesterday, all of the classes were full.'' His school has 1,500 students.

Afghanistan has struggled to move past five years of oppressive rule under the Taliban. From 1996-2001, girls were not allowed to attend school. Today, 2 million girls are receiving an education.

Yet not everyone is happy with the greater freedom women and girls are enjoying. Schools for girls have been targeted by arsonists, and last year two students outside a girls' school were murdered by gunmen.