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The Canadian girl, a work in progress	2/6/2010 10:30 PM
Increasingly, scholars are focusing on the hearts and thorny lives of young females.
Sommerfeld: Household males egg one another on	2/7/2010 10:30 PM
Whenever I make hard-boiled eggs, I make a dozen and put them in the fridge. The first two usually go into a sandwich for the Poor Sod's lunch, and the rest sit in a bowl that is pilfered every hour or two by whomever happens to be foraging.
'Barbie jam': Youths give icon real-world makeovers	2/6/2010 10:30 PM
How's this for "playing Barbie?" Give her a pot belly. Chop her flowing hair into a Mohawk. Or remodel her torso to flatten out her chest.
Girl, 12, handcuffed and arrested for doodling	2/5/2010 4:02 AM
A New York City junior high student has been arrested for doodling on her desk.
Kids' Olympic dreams refloated	2/3/2010 10:30 PM
A day after 11 seriously ill children and their families watched their Olympic dreams crumble, Make-A-Wish foundation organizers say the children will have their once-in-a-lifetime experience after all.
Menon: Bellying up to the parenting buffet	2/3/2010 10:30 PM
I am starting a new child-rearing club. Known as "Buffet Parenting," this looming phenomenon allows frazzled devotees to pick and choose among existing parenting techniques.
Start early to nip bullies in the bud	2/3/2010 8:16 AM
A national study that followed youth for 25 years shows bullies were aggressive from the beginning. That's why experts say prevention should start in the toddler years.
‘Caring’ Canadians rally to rescue Olympic dream	2/3/2010 8:48 AM
Organizers cautiously confident donors will help 11 Make-A-Wish children, including 2 Toronto-area teenagers.
Baptists accused of child peddling in Haiti	1/31/2010 10:30 PM
Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
Polish priest to schoolkids: 'Yes we scan'	1/31/2010 10:30 PM
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily reports.

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