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Justin Bieber teams up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign
Justin Bieber surprised the young students of a Las Vegas primary school on Friday after he visited the place to declare that he had partnered up with Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. The 19-year-old singer, who dropped by Whitney Elementary School ahead of his performance at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, spent time giving food donations to the children as they shed tears of joy after ...
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Childhood ADHD could lead to obesity in adulthood
A new study conducted by researchers at the Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center found that men diagnosed as children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were twice as likely to be obese in a 33-year follow-up study compared to men who were not diagnosed with the condition. "Few studies have focused on long-term outcomes for patients diagnosed with ADHD in ...
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Prenatal exposure to traffic linked to respiratory infection in kids
A study has claimed that exposure to traffic during the prenatal period is associated with an increased risk of respiratory infection being developed in young children by the age of 3. Lead author Mary Rice, MD, a pulmonary and critical care fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, said that their study extends previous findings by showing ...
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More time in gym class lowers obesity risk in kids
Increasing the amount of time that elementary schoolchildren spent in gym class reduces the probability of obesity, a new study from Cornell University has found. The study represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of physical education (PE) on youth obesity. The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute ...
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Oklahoma City faces second deadly tornado in 13 years
A devastating tornado in the Oklahoma City suburbs in southcentral US, that has killed at least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, was second only to one in May 1999 in its fury. The twister 13 years ago, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, killed 36 people and smashed some of the same communities, according to CNN. On May 3, 1999, a total of 74 tornadoes ...
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The Cotton Club [DVD]
Francis Ford Coppola was the most critically and commercially successful director of the 1970s. His achievements in that single decadeThe Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), not to mention all the movies he produced and distributedwould be enough success to make an entire career. ...
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Spears under fire for giving toy gun to son
Singer Britney Spears is facing criticism for allowing her 6-year-old son Jayden to play with a large toy gun. A not-for-profit gun-control group is outraged after Jayden was photographed aggressively pointing the toy weapon at people during the family's stay at the Four Seasons hotel in Westlake Village, California May 4, reports contactmusic.com. "As parents, it is our responsibility to set ...
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The Goodwin Games Premiere Beau Bridges Forces Kids To Play Elaborate Game For Inheritance
Beau Bridges as a father who wasn't much of a father to his kids. When he knew he was dying, he devised a complex game that would hopefully bring them together. More specifically, perhaps, it would award one of them his $23 million fortune. The new Fox comedy premiere introduced the three siblings who would be reluctantly playing the game. First up was a customized version of Trivial ...
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Check out the New Film that Empowers Slum Kids
I recently took my two daughters to see an inspiring film that will be shown on PBS next month, and you should check it out, too. The movie, "The Revolutionary Optimists," will premiere on June 17 as part of the Independent Lens series. It deals with children in a Calcutta (now named Kolkata) slum who, under the direction of an NGO, work to change their surroundings. The film was ...
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Video School children amongst Okla. tornado casualties
Two elementary schools -- Briarwood Elementary and Plaza Towers Elementary -- were also hit by the tornado that leveled residential areas in Moore, Okla. "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell reports several children died as a result of the ...
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Parents huddle waiting for news of lost children as rescuers comb tornado smashed Oklahoma City
PARENTS huddled together throughout the night for news of missing children after a monster tornado ripped through schools in Oklahoma city yesterday. The storm left scores of blocks barren and dark in Moore, a community of 41,000 people 16km south of Oklahoma City's heart. Rescuers walked through neighborhoods where Monday's (US time) powerful twister flattened home after home, to listen ...
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Sheraton Yankee Trader Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Beach
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