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She has no proof. She cannot know for sure. But when Niello Far's daughter was born deaf, she immediately suspected what might have been the cause. "Everybody believes it was the gas. Others have told me it is because of the gas," said the young mother, making sign language to her four-year-old, Zoba. "The doctor has told me that it may be, that it might be the gas."
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More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized in China's tainted milk scandal, Chinese health officials revealed, while the country defended its dairy products Thursday at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.
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An expansion of the number of places in secure units for children has led to an overcapacity that is now threatening the viability of units, the Scottish Government has revealed.
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Thousands of pre-school children and adults are to take part in events marking National Bookstart Day.
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Finance Minister Brian Lenihan will be taking food out of the mouths of starving children if he reduces grants to Irish missionary groups and NGOs, a leading charity warned yesterday.
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An expansion of the number of places in secure units for children has led to an overcapacity that is now threatening the viability of units, the Scottish Government has revealed.
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Millions of children under 14 continue to work as domestic servants or at food stalls two years after India banned their employment, say activists.
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For three decades she played Myrtle Fargate, a surrogate mother to characters including Susan Lucci's Erica Kane. A Broadway actress, her film credits include Laurence Olivier's 'Hamlet.' Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on the ABC daytime soap opera "All My Children" for more than three decades as former carny turned boutique owner Myrtle Fargate, has died. She was 90.
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One key to a proper diagnosis, researchers say, is recognizing grandiose behavior. Their study finds that 44% of those who had manic episodes as children continued having them as adults. A study of 54 people with bipolar disorder found that the illness, long considered an adult affliction, also affects children.
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Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena is showing the Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary, "Where Do the Children Play?" A discussion of the film follows with author Elizabeth Goodenough and Academy Award-winning filmmaker and USC faculty member Mark Harris. The event, which...
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In one homeland they were treated as outcasts, in the other as refugees. Now thousands of these Amerasians are uniting and lobbying Congress for what they feel is a birthright: 'We are Americans.' Randy Tran walked quickly past the majestic domes and marble statues of Capitol Hill, looking for the Cannon House Office building and the people he believed could help him.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Eileen Herlie, a stage and TV actress who appeared on "All My Children" for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, has died at 90. Herlie died Wednesday of pneumonia, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the ABC soap opera's executive producer....
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They are some of Scotland's toughest soldiers - sent to Kenya to take part in a gruelling seven-week exercise to prepare them for front-line action in Afghanistan.
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Eileen Herlie, who played Myrtle Fargate on 'All My Children' for more than three decades, died Wednesday at age 90.
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A newly renovated, $2 million playground at 116th Street in Morningside Park features an expansive jungle gym, which is sure to keep kids busy.
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A west London council opens a playground specially-designed for the play needs of disabled children.
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GALWAY University Hospital is to revamp its plumbing system over the next six weeks after the bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease were found in its paediatric wing.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire early Saturday, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said....
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Campaign biographies for kids are a sunny, upbeat lot, unlike the grown-up versions.
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Two new picture books, one trick and one treat, cut children's primal fears down to size.
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Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said.
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Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) The humanitarian situation in North Kivu, in the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo, is worsening each day, due to fighting that has broken out between the regular army and rebels led by Laurent Nkunda (see
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A Sri Lankan woman Sasikala Navaneethan (36), who stabbed to death her own son, Shanjayan (5) and d..
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To meet the new recommendation of 400 units daily, millions of children will need to take vitamin D supplements each day.
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Two fires over the weekend in New York City left seven people dead, including four children.
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A woman from East Dunbartonshire is jailed for 18 months over benefits claims for 14 children who did not exist.
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Supping real ale propped against an oak bar, as a fire crackles in the hearth and the fruit machine jingles merrily in the corner – ah, the supposedly quintessential British pub experience. Now added to that, however, is the clamour of unruly children. Pub-goers have complained that their visits to many establishments have been ruined by badly behaved offspring.
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The three living children of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have feuded before. This time the squabbling is over the legacy and estate not of their father but of their mother.
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A new study finds that the higher the parents’ expectations for controlling the asthma, the better their children do.
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Serotype 19A has become a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions in young children.
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Health Canada is recalling a Chinese-made toy truck due to excessive levels of barium in its yellow paint.
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Today's selection of timely reports.
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I have discovered a guaranteed way for readers to escape the belt-tightening that most of us hardworking taxpayers are having to go in for because of the credit crunch and ensuing economic recession: give up work and have loads of kids, preferably at least seven.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal....
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Children of immigrants are changing the face of the United States, tested by special challenges and opportunities that prepare them to succeed in American society.
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Welsh Assembly Government Ministers have reaffirmed their commitment to improving services and provision for disabled young people in Wales by announcing a new funding package of support worth £2.75m.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A new, cherry-flavored anti-malaria pill works as well as current treatments, is easy for children to swallow and could save lives, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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