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'Tough love' keeps teens from binge drinking
Tue, 22 May 2012 18:08:10 -0700
The headlines state that one in ten teens are binge drinkers and graphic photos of them vomiting in the street paint an unflattering picture of a sub-culture out of control.
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Talent show for kids, teens set for library's main branch
Tue, 22 May 2012 21:09:18 -0700
The Reading Public Library main facility at Fifth and Franklin streets is hosting a talent show for children and teenagers today at 4 p.m. Registration forms are available at the library or www.reading.lib.pa.us/index.htm.
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California teens eat fewer calories in school
Mon, 21 May 2012 05:03:59 -0700
High school kids in California, a state that limits the junk food sold in vending machines, eat fewer calories in school than kids in states without such regulations
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Video games aren't just for kids and teens
Mon, 21 May 2012 03:38:54 -0700
By Michael Hartwell mhartwell@sentinelandenterprise.com @sehartwell on Twitter LEOMINSTER -- Last Monday night when a crowd of video games players gathered at the GameStop store in Leominster's Mall at Whitney Field for the midnight release
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Madison-Oneida BOCES help out on anti-bullying music video
Tue, 22 May 2012 19:44:20 -0700
Cyber-bullying has become a major problem among teens in recent years. Now a New York City production company is partnering with Oneida County Middle and High School students to spread positive messages through the internet. As our Andrew Sorensen tells us, the video is already making an impact at the school where they shot it.
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Kids, parents benefit from family center offerings
Tue, 22 May 2012 21:00:00 -0700
Based inside a former Dollar Store, the lessons taught at this northwestern Tampa community center are priceless.
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Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. Teens Has Diabetes or Prediabetes
Mon, 21 May 2012 06:49:45 -0700
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. teens is on the fast track to diabetes, if they don’t already have the disease, according to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that was published Monday in Pediatrics. In less than a decade, the proportion of kids ages 12 to 19 with diabetes or prediabetes [...]
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CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
Mon, 21 May 2012 05:53:08 -0700
Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says.And ...
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Kids Help Phone to present arguments to Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights in support of Bill 13 and Bill 14
Tue, 22 May 2012 09:00:00 -0700
TORONTO , May 22, 2012 /CNW/ - On Tuesday May 22 , Kids Help Phone will present arguments before the Standing Committee on Social Policy, currently examining Bill 13 and Bill 14. Kids Help Phone welcomes ...
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Grace Dent: Personally, I'd fire bullying teens from a cannon and relocate the 'feral' kids to Chipping Norton
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:36:27 -0700
To the utter indifference of social nuisances UK-wide, Theresa May has announced changes to Britain's antisocial behaviour policies. Out with the Asbo, in with the Crimbo, the criminal behaviour order. Five individual complaints and you're offski. It's a chirpier, more festive sounding instrument of control. Until yesterday Crimbo was simply a bastardisation of "Christmas", one of those words it ...
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