Two suspected terrorists on a flight from Chicago were picked up at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Monday carrying fake bombs - it's thought they were on a trial run for an attack. But this big US story seems to have slipped past today's Dutch papers, making no more than a few front-page lines in de Volkskrant and De Telegraaf. Instead the main stories range from frozen eggs and Geert Wilders' biography to falling-down lessons.

Frozen eggs beat the biological clock
Women should be able to have their eggs frozen in case they want to get pregnant later in life, even if there's no special medical reason, concludes a report by the Dutch gynaecologists' association. At present women are only able to have this treatment if they're likely to become infertile, perhaps due to cancer, de Volkskrant's lead story explains. Parties on the right aren't keen on the idea, describing the treatment as a "luxury item" (the conservative VVD party) and "wish medicine" (the Christian Democrats) says the paper.

The critics say the right way to beat the biological clock is simply to start having children younger. But in NRC Handelsblad the men behind the report say they can't find a good reason why single women, busy building a career or still hunting for the right partner, shouldn't be able to put reproduction on hold until they're 45. After all, many present IVF patients would also have been able to get pregnant naturally if they'd started earlier.

Having picked the right moment to get the eggs out of the freezer, Dutch women will now be able to hire the Netherlands' first "baby planner". It's an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon which has finally arrived in the Netherlands, AD reports. Once the gynaecologist has organised the pregnancy, Sandra van der Spek will sort out the rest, from the doula to the baby-shower.

Wilders "offends" but doesn't "insult"
Today's dose of Geert Wilders news centres on the launch of his biography, Geert Wilders, Sorcerer's Apprentice. De Volkskrant has a double-page interview with the author, Meindert Fennema - a former communist and a member of the Green Left party. Not surprisingly, he hasn't been able to count on Mr Wilders' cooperation. And certainly not when reporting the anti-Islam politician's "affairettes", based on an anonymous source.

"Is it objective?" asks de Volkskrant. "Well, of course there's always a certain colour," says Mr Fennema. "Wilders' can lie through his teeth, especially when he's under pressure. Why shouldn't I say so?"

However, Mr Fennema also complains about a subtler 'colour' in reporting on Mr Wilders in the Dutch media, including de Volkskrant. The author points out that when Mr Wilders' recently told Australian media he was happy "to offend people" with his anti-Islam views, the Dutch press translated it with the word beledigen, meaning "to insult". Mr Wilders apparently only intends to be offensive, not insulting.

"Crack down on the hashish plague"
The Netherlands is suffering from a "hashish plague". Apropos of nothing but the ongoing coalition negotiations between the parties on the right, populist daily De Telegraaf devotes its editorial to a tirade against the Dutch liberal soft-drug policy.

"It's a blatant scandal that school children in this country can get hold of drugs so easily," the paper fulminates. "The 30-year policy of tolerance is a painful expression of namby-pamby Dutch half measures."

'Coffeeshops' came about at a time when soft drugs really were soft, says the editor, but now cannabis is at least 17 times stronger. An entire generation has grown up with the message that there's nothing wrong with soft drugs, he adds indignantly, and schoolkids think nothing of lighting up a quick break-time joint. Now the rightwing parties have their chance to act. If it's up to De Telegraaf, the next Dutch government will consign the Dutch experiment of tolerating soft drugs to the history books.

A celebration of statistics
The Dutch statistics office is celebrating its 111th anniversary, Trouw reports. Perhaps statisticians prefer the aesthetics of a number like 111 compared to more prosaic numbers like 100 or 125, but here the paper leaves us none the wiser.

To mark the occasion, Trouw prints a selection of graphs to show how Dutch society has been developing. We see how the use of the contraceptive pill rose until the mid-1990's but has since been gradually declining. Tuberculosis had a massive peak during World War II, but dwindled to its present low in the 1980s. Strikes had their heyday around 1920 then, after a brief post-war resurgence, fell out of favour in the 1960s.

Finally, we learn of the fortunes of the tern. In the late 1930s these seabirds thrived, but they fell on hard times in the early 1960s. The good news is that the tern has been on the return ever since, and the population is now back to the level of the late fifties. And happy birthday to the Dutch statistics office.

Falling-down lessons for school kids
The Dutch expression meaning "to learn by trial and error" translates as "to learn by falling down and standing up again". But Dutch children apparently need to learn how to fall down. Kids are getting fatter and don't play outside as often as they used to do, AD reports, so when they fall over they're more likely to break a bone, if not their necks.

Falling-down lessons are the answer, says the Consumer and Safety Foundation. Apparently 39,000 children a year in the Netherlands end up in hospital after a fall. So the foundation is promising to teach every primary school child in the country how to fall over properly.

The course has been designed by a judo and remedial teacher in collaboration with a former judo world champion. What's the trick to avoid injuring yourself? "The most important thing is not to stretch out your hands," he says. "You should also turn your head away from the side you're falling."