Boy Glues Self to Bed

A 10-year-old Mexican boy was so determined not to return to school after the Christmas holiday that he glued his hand to his bed. Sandra Palacios spent nearly two hours on Monday morning trying to free her so...

Young Pro-Lifers on the Rise

The bell rang and the eighth graders jumped up, eager to compare notes."I named my baby Kyle Patrick," one shouted. "Mine is Antonio!"At the urging of an antiabortion activist, they had each pledged to "sp...

Chest Implants for Men?

The poster boy in the Abercrombie & Fitch window looks like Huck Finn, if Huck were genetically engineered with "Say howdy!" nipples and perfectly symmetrical, squared-off pecs. In "300," last year's cartoo...

Poor Little Rich Kids

As an elementary-school kid in suburban New Jersey, Jordan Roth says he didn’t quite grasp the dizzying extent of his family’s wealth, though he got a tart first clue as a 6-year-old, when a classma...

Sesame St. Comes with Warning

There's something wrong with a picture from the original Sesame Street - little children riding bicycles without helmets. Other scenes, too, from the original Sesame Street could be too seedy for today's kids, ...

Epidemic Eating Away at Youngsters

The number of patients needing hospital treatment for eating disorders has soared, it has emerged.The findings are sure to renew concerns about the effect "size zero" models and celebrities are having on the bo...

Huckabee: Jesus’ Super Star?

"...it's surprising--yet for reasons we'll get into, entirely sensible--that the candidate who has made the most effective use of pop culture in campaign 2008 is the former president of the Arkansas Baptist Sta...

Education Focus on Daily Life

Private schools across the country are experimenting with education models geared toward preparing students for life as much as academics.       For example, Vistamar school in Los Angeles, t...

Muslim Garb Disqualifies Runner

Juashaunna Kelly, a Theodore Roosevelt High School senior who has the fastest mile and two-mile times of any girls' runner in the District this winter, was disqualified from Saturday's Montgomery Invitational i...