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Throughout the torturous official investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal on May 3, 2007, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have learned of their status in the ordeal from anonymous leaks rather than through official channels. That precedent held again Monday night: unconfirmed reports from Portuguese media claim that police are closing the case and abandoning any plans to charge the McCanns with Madeleine's disappearance...
...life sentence for breaking into the home of an Israeli family in 1979 and killing the family's father and one of his daughters. As Kuntar searched the house for more victims that night, the mother, Smadar Haran, hid with her baby daughter, holding a hand over the toddler's mouth to stifle her screams. Kuntar never found the pair, but when Haran finally removed her hand from her daughter's face, she realized, with horror, that she had unwittingly suffocated the girl. While the public argued against Kuntar's return to Lebanon, the widow Haran issued a statement supporting...
...three years before the polio vaccine was available, I was a 33-month-old toddler. I took a nap with my 5-year-old cousin. When we woke up, she was fine, but I had a fever, was in terrific pain and could not walk. After rushing me to the hospital and seeing me go through two spinal taps, my parents heard the dreaded diagnosis: polio. I had paralysis in both legs, my back, right arm, diaphragm and lungs. I spent the next four months in the hospital until I was miraculously able to breathe on my own again. Ahead...
...simple reality that the illnesses kids are being inoculated against are rarely seen anymore. When diseases like polio ran free in the early 1900s, the clamor was less about why we needed vaccines than about why there weren't more of them. Once you've seen your neighbor's toddler become paralyzed, you're a lot more likely to worry that the same thing will happen to yours. "The fact is," says Offit, "young mothers today never grew up with the disease...
...stories in recent years have dominated the British news and gripped the public as much as the plight of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann. And with Saturday marking the first anniversary of the 4-year-old's disappearance from her family's vacation apartment in the Portuguese resort town of Praia da Luz, the ongoing media circus is again revving into overdrive. "There will be wall-to-wall coverage," says Roy Greenslade, a British media critic...