Word: boyness
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...primary reason South Carolina mom Jerri Gray lost custody of her 14-year-old, 555-lb. son in May. She was arrested after missing a court date to examine whether she should retain custody after doctors had expressed concern about her son's weight to social services. The boy is currently living with his aunt, and his mother is facing criminal child-neglect charges. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...Sothern also notes how difficult it is for many of her patients to shed weight, including one boy whom social workers recently considered removing from his home. "They were saying, 'This mother must be feeding him to death. We need to remove him.' I said, 'Guys, before you do that, we need to look at more options - he's obese, but he's fit, enrolled in sports. He can run. His breathing has improved...
Tributes by diaper-clad babies continue to multiply on YouTube, a year after the release of the singer's female-independence anthem. A two-minute video of a 13-month-old boy leaning against a coffee table as he bounces and kicks along to Beyoncé, who looms before him on a wide-screen TV, recently passed 2.8 million views. (The boy couldn't even walk at the time, according to his father Chester Elliott, who has since started a website called SingleBabies.com.) Another baby-loves-Beyoncé video, of an astoundingly limber toddler named Ava, has been watched more...
...attacks in Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwestern city of Kohat, killing three police officers and eight civilians. Shortly after the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in the northwestern border city of Peshawar, killing a 6-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only one to have so far remained immune from the latest wave of terrorist attacks. (Read "How a U.S. Aid Package to Pakistan Could Threaten Zardari...
...also glimpse Max at school, where, slumped over in classic bored-boy pose, he hears from his teacher that the sun, like all other things, will die. As Max's eyes widen almost imperceptibly, we realize that he is paying attention and is horrified. Jonze keeps the moment quiet, but it is one more piece in the puzzle of existential angst that drives Max to that fateful eruption with his mother. Here, instead of being sent to his room, he flees the house and goes racing through the neighborhood, baying like a wolf. He finds a boat and sets sail...