Census tracks habits that help kids

The other day at dinner, Garic Griffin, 8, told his parents that when his buddy at school was drinking milk, he sucked it all into the brain. Garic's folks tried to tell the boy that milk doesn't travel that route, but he was reluctant to believe them because of the stories he'd heard in the hallways. .

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North Dakota Kids Suffer From Mysterious Illness

West Fargo, ND (AHN) - Doctors are perplexed over the cause of illness of two kids from North Dakota, who have been sick since the time they were born. The kids, 6-year-old Ariana Kaseman and her 2-year-old brother, Lucas, are now restricted to wheelchairs after unending bouts of fever, pain and other neurological problems. Their parents, Teresa and Kevin Kaseman, have approached doctors in Fargo and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to find a possible cause of kid's illness but all their hard-work is in vain as the doctors have not been able to detect any particular cause for their mysterious illness. Dr. Janet Tillisch, a pediatrician at Dakota Clinic in Fargo told AP, "We've checked with everything for them, and we've just not been able to come up with anything." "There's hundreds of diseases these kids could have, and every test has come up normal.

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Madonna calls for more adoption of Malawi kids

When Madonna initiated the adoption of a Malawian boy, she was "saving a life", the singer told David Letterman as she called for increased adoption from the African nation. "There's over a million orphans in Malawi and in my opinion the laws need to change because these children need to be rescued," the Material Mom said yesterday on Letterman's Late Show on CBS. Madonna, 48, said she had been warned that pursuing an adoption from the country could be difficult. "My social worker ... said: 'Good luck. You're going to be making it up as you go along,' " the pop star recalled, according to a show transcript released last night. "She didn't say don't do it, but she just said expect challenges, and, boy, did we get them." .

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