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...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...
...Even without the examples offered by the INCB, it's not hard to imagine that for professional drug dealers, the Internet is a virtual playground. It's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to control and censor; it has no borders, and, unlike in the physical world, criminals can change identities and locations in the time it takes to switch on a new computer...
...also include various publishing, insurance and real-estate enterprises - to the scrutiny of a binding conflict-of-interest watchdog agency. A campaign promise to resolve the issue within 100 days of taking office last spring has come and gone with Berlusconi sitting on it like a bully on the playground's only kickball. The sole solution the Prime Minister said he will consider is to establish a watchdog body without the power to impose sanctions when conflicts arise...
While the store is designed to be a playground for adults, Crescenzi welcomes children, as well—under the supervision of adults. Regardless of age, she says, toys bring out the same playful spirit...
...Shibuya district of Tokyo is a teen mecca by day, by night a neon-signed playground of drinking holes and sex clubs for adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short...