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'07 births highest in U.S. history

ATLANTA — More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.

There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 million births:

• The U.S. population is more than replacing itself, a healthy trend.

• However, the teen birth rate was up for the second year in a row.

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