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Nepal Gets Its First Graduate Goddess

... virgin. Every eight years or so, a four-year-old girl from the Shakya community, the Buddhist clan from which Gautama Buddha came, is chosen to be Kumari on the basis of certain secret signs and a horoscope compatible with the king's. The four-year-old lives in her own palace, never walks on the ground...

Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

... and directed by Goldberg. The narrator, a young girl named Janie, describes her experiences when her grandfather moves in with the family after a stroke. Included are brief, child-friendly explanations of what causes stroke; why stroke can lead to changes in mood, verbal and physical ability and behavi...

Kerala Youth Die of Carbon Monoxide Inhalation

...eath of the three partying youngsters, including a girl in December last. At that time three putrefied b...final call on his mobile phone at 4.45 p.m. The girl was found dead inside the car while the bodies of two others were seen sprawled on the garage floor....

Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

...of a HIV patient that she had tested positive. The girl paid for its callousness//, with her life, reports...ious institution, failed to inform the family of a girl patient that she had tested HIV positive.And she paid the price for their callousness - with her lif...

Fashion Fraternity Turns Socially Conscious

... Magic Foundation to help support the cause of the girl child. "There is great need to take care of girl children in the country and the Valaya Magic Foundation is an initiative to support this cause creat...

I Would Sob After Meeting Young Prostitutes: Judd

...t's been so hard, it's been so hard. You know, one girl or woman, one boy or man, abused and mistreated to me is the whole world being abused and mistreated. And I have gone to my hotel room at night and I have cried and cried and cried." Judd told NDTV's Prannoy Roy that she prefers fighting for women ...

“A Hen Is Only An Egg's Way Of Making Another Egg

...c action in front of the state secretariat where a girl would come out from an egg. This is just to show that eating an egg means a life is taken away." According to Kamath, it is a myth that eggs provide great energy. She said in reality, dals (pulses) have more nutritional value. Each egg contains ab...

Sons Gone Up In Smoke

...en smokers have a higher chance of giving birth to girl children, they also run// the risk of their unbo...findings may influence would-be parents desiring a girl child, to light up. She sets the picture right."If people think that smoking might get them what t...

Harassment in School Affects Majority of Elementary Students

...of torment also were surveyed. Tarshis recounted a girl in the ninth grade whose friends decided to stop speaking to her, spread nasty rumors about her and exclude her from activities, all right under the nose of an unsuspecting teacher. "It was a little distressing how prevalent the problem is even in...

20-year Study Shows Significant Rise in Childhood Obesity, Especially Among Girls

...s. For example, in 2002 the average ten-year-old girl was 2.1 per cent taller and 13.4 per cent heavier than her 1982 counterpart, with a 13.3 per cent increase in BMI. Boys were, on average, 1.1 per cent taller and 7.6 per cent heavier, with a 5.1 per cent increase in BMI. 540 children were studied i...

Bird Flu Claims Its 14th Human Victim in Egypt

...rom The Ministry of Health in Egypt, a 15-year-old girl has succumbed to// bird flu infection on 10th of April. The girl hailing from Cairo Governate was sick with symptoms of bird flu. She was admitted to a hospital but ...

Obesity - A Major Crisis

...be seen to steady among the teenagers. The average girl seems to be more over weight than the boys. In fact compared to a decade back today’s girls are on an average heavier than her counterpart. Many of the children who are obese when young remain obese when they turn to adulthood too. Dr. Martin Fried...

Obesity Could Be Linked to Mother's Early Puberty

... team. It is already known that age at which a girl has her first period - or reaches "menarche" - is largely inherited. And women who start their periods early are at increased risk of obesity in later life, and are likely to be overweight even before puberty. Knowing that rapid infancy weight ...

Muslim Organization Protest Against Sex Education in Schools

... will we digest the fact that a 10-year-old boy or girl will be taught how to use a condom?" asked ISOI's state unit president Sarik Ansari. He said: "This is a serious matter and the government should opt for other ways to create awareness among students and public. The ministry's move seems to be moti...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...s the collapse of both kidneys of a three-year-old girl after consuming tainted spinach. Eating contaminated peanut butter incapacitated some others. There have been apologies and pledges of better quality control by the companies that marketed the controversial spinach-Natural Selection Foods, the pea...

Cocaine at Daycare Centre in US

...horities are appalled over reports that a two-year girl at a daycare centre in North Waco a small bag of c...said, which made the teacher worry that the little girl had put it in her mouth. Police tested the substance at the scene, and quickly determined it was c...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

... daughters could have the pick of husbands.'A thin girl could be blown away in the wind, people think she ...husband,' she said. Nomads seem to believe a fat girl is a healthy girl. But then the Mauritanian government seems to have realized that in reality, obe...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...akthrough surgery she underwent on March 30th, the girl has been thankfully seizure-free. This type of epilepsy makes the victim suffer numerous seizures lasting 10 seconds each. The girl’s mother, Jessica Anderson, 23, said, "It was very frightening at first when we didn't know what was going on. She...

US Army to Recruit More Psychiatrists to Counsel Stressed Out Soldiers

... by Marines, the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl and the slaying of her family and the sexual humiliation of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Officials and military analysts have blamed ethics lapses partly on the strain of combat and insufficient training troops got before being sent to the battlef...

10 Year Sentence for Teen Sex Repealed

...sonment for consensual oral sex with a 15 year old girl when he was 17 . The judge termed it as a grave mi...caught on video tape having sex with a 15 year old girl during a 2003 New Year's Eve party involving alcohol and marijuana. The judge had found the honor st...

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