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Girls scouts refuse to sell cookies

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 20th 2008 11:00AM

Ann Arbor cookie lovers may find themselves short of Girl Scout cookies this year. Michigan 12-year-olds Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen have decided not to sell the popular fund-raising cookies. That's because they learned during an award ...
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Salma, the Muslim Barbie

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 12th 2007 12:02PM

The doll you see pictured here may look a lot like a Barbie doll, but she sure doesn't dress like one. The doll is Salma, the brainchild of a 28-year-old Indonesian woman named Sukmawati Suryaman, who saw a need for a more appropriate version of the ...
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Hospital: No money, no baby

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 26th 2007 12:07PM

A clinic near Jakarta, Indonesia is refusing to release a baby to his parents until they can pay their bill. It seems that Mr. Sustrino, a poor pedicab driver simply doesn't have the 3.5 million rupiah (about $386US) that he owes the clinic for the ...
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Girl born with two heads in stable condition

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 20th 2006 10:00AM

Doctors in Indonesia are grappling with just how to treat a baby girl born with two heads. The rare form of conjoined twins, called a dicephalus twin, is presenting the medical team with many questions and few answers. The girl, named Syafitri, ...
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