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The Friday File: Children conceived during heat waves have higher literacy rates, lower disability rates, higher incomes and more years of schooling than children conceived during normal temperatures. It’s probably because sexual activity declines in hot weather. However, the wealthy and better educated have access to air conditioning, can stay in hotels or else travel to cooler climes and weaken the impact of heat. As for the recent polar vortex…