Child-killing virus hits Beijing

The death toll in China’s outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has risen to 42 children, with the capital Beijing reporting its first case Wednesday, state media said.
Parents sit with children being treated for the virus in Fuyang, China, last month.
The child died on the way to a hospital Sunday, health authorities told the [...]

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Bird Flu Medicine Toxic for Teens

Students are startled as pigeons flap their wings to fly upward at a park in eastern Seoul, Tuesday. / Yonhap
By Bae Ji-sook Staff Reporter Concerns are rising over side effect of bird flu drug Tamiflu on teenagers. Tamiflu is Swiss-based Hoffman-La Roche’s antiviral [...]

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Food Riots are Coming to the U.S.

There is a time for food, and a time for ethical appraisals. This was the case even before Bertolt Brecht gave life to that expression in Die Driegroschen Oper. The time for a reasoned, coherent understanding for the growing food crisis is not just overdue, but seemingly past. Robert Zoellick of the [...]

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Population Control and a World Food Authority: Reshaping the International Order

The establishment of a World Food Authority to control the food supply of the world is a major goal of The Club of Rome’s RIO report. This issue is intertwined with exaggerated fears of environmental collapse and the elite’s obsession with population control.
The Club of Rome is a premiere think tank composed [...]

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Outrage at European moves to feed animal remains to chickens

The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice - banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago - would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels.
But the proposal has outraged animal rights campaigners, [...]

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China’s Organ Harvesting Confirmed By a Former Detention Center Prisoner

In early 2006, The Epoch Times first exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s crime of harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners. Since then new evidence continues to surface.
Recently a witness from Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province has come forward and revealed what he discovered during his detention in Wuxi City No.2 Detention [...]

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Mother fined £75 by litter police after four-year-old daughter drops piece of sausage roll on the pavement

A young single mum has been fined £75 for “littering” after her four-year-old daughter dropped a piece of sausage roll on the pavement.
Fuming Sarah Davies, 20, was feeding hungry Chloe with the snack when it accidentally slipped from her grasp inches from her daughter’s mouth and fell to the floor.
Moments later pigeons [...]

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4-year-old may be responsible for death of toddler brother

East St. Louis police are investigating the suspicious death of a two year old boy. His 4-year-old brother is suspected of killing him, and his mother tells News 4 that he was pretending he was a professional wrestler.
Jacqueline Davis says she came out of the shower and [...]

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3rd-graders allegedly plot attack on teacher with steak knife, handcuffs

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.
The plot involving as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was [...]

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Investigator: Wish case of missing cousins was solved sooner

A top police investigator said he wishes the case of a missing pregnant teenager and her cousin could have been solved more quickly.
On Wednesday, police found the bodies of 19-year-old Anquiaette Parker and 4-year-old Cermen Toney, Jr. 
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