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...seven children among them, four to diarrhea. Kinza Diallo, 29, said that when her 1-year-old daughter contracted diarrhea in 2004, she clutched her on the back of a motorbike for the hour's ride to the nearest hospital, where she was given pills and sent away. The girl died two days later. "Diarrhea has killed three of my children," she said. "I have been very unlucky." Now, she said, when one of her children gets sick, she heads straight to the village pharmacy and buys a course of zinc tablets. Though several of the five women's children...
Glee, the hit show about a high school Glee club, has very sharp claws, which is one reason kids like it so much. It is routinely, if hilariously, cruel (the sweet jock is described as so dumb, "he's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows"). But no darker current--let alone motivation for parental monitoring--had occurred to me until I recently heard a bright, earnest youth minister tell a group of high school kids that he thought Glee was "anti-Christian...
...tension between a flamboyantly gay kid and his devoted, conflicted dad. A third forced us to revisit the judgment we'd reached about the show's most gleefully conniving character, cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, who has all the charm and subtlety of a python. She accepted a clumsy girl with Down syndrome onto her immaculate squad and treated her just like all the other members--brutally and contemptuously. When Mr. Schuester challenged her motives, she stared him down. "You don't know the first thing about me," she told him, and as we watched her arrive later at a nursing...
...J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis' witches and wizards got a free pass just because the authors wore their missions on their sleeves. (You see it in the Twilight saga too; we're O.K. with vampires and werewolves as long as they're fighting it out to protect a girl's virginity.) If, to some parents, J.K. Rowling's subtlety makes her lessons suspect, I think it makes them powerful. Kids, like adults, resist force-feeding. When a whole generation obsessed about Harry, parents everywhere were given a rich new repertoire of characters and plotlines with which to teach about loyalty...
SABAR MINA, an 8-year-old Pakistani girl who, instead of attending school, is forced to work for pennies smuggling food across the Afghanistan border...