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...Ashley was 16 and worried about her upcoming exams. She had been having headaches for the last eight weeks and they were getting worse. Two months before, she had broken up with her boyfriend; her grades took a definite downturn; and her sister got a pet hamster for her birthday. Her headaches seemed to be the worst in the evening and the morning, and though Motrin helped a little, they occasionally were bad enough to awake her from sleeping. The pain was all over but seemed worse over her sinuses and "behind her eyes." She had had no trauma...
...prescribed antibiotics for a presumed sinus infection as well as allergy medication. Her mother was pretty sure that the baby sister would not relinquish the hamster, but they would move it out of the family room. Meanwhile, Ashley promised to work out some of her stress on a treadmill and promised to return after exams so we could reassess her stress and headaches. But the waking up at night bugged me. Most teenagers, once asleep, don't awaken easily. So again I ordered a CT scan "to be cautious," and again it proved a caution worth taking. Ashley's brain...
...saved our hamster and other family tales: ALEX and VANESSA KERRY did more to soften Kerry's image than did the fuzzy biopic they introduced
...Factory. In another case, sales of children's toothpaste shot up 18%. "These field trips are nothing more than a way to clobber a captive audience of impressionable children with ads," says Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a watchdog group. But Abbie Levi, whose daughter Sarah asked for a hamster after attending the Petco field trip, says simply, "Parents have the power to say no." Easier said than done. --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. With reporting by Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
This is, quite frankly, a profoundly horrible song. It opens with a wacky kazoolike guitar effect. That's the best part. But after one listen, the melody spins in your head like a relentless hamster wheel. Commissioned for the Shrek 2 sound track, it was designed to be the kind of sticky thing young children and their grandparents could enjoy together. That may shed some light on the line about strawberry ice cream, but it does not explain why a once respectable band consented to sing a song so sugary it would send the Archies into shock. This is catchier...