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| Watch: Boy's Giggles Were Dangerous Seizures Wed, 16 May 2012 10:19:55 -0400 Dysart family explains why young son's giggles were nothing to laugh about. 
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| Surgery Helps Kids With Dangerous Giggling Seizures Wed, 16 May 2012 15:07:00 -0400 It is the most treasured and joyous sound for nearly every parent: their child's laughter. But for a rare number of children, laughter can signal a potentially devastating, even fatal future, and their parents will do anything to make the laughter stop.
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| Watch: Enraged by the Sound of Sniffles? Tue, 15 May 2012 08:43:13 -0400 College student explains struggle with misophonia.
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| Watch: Losing It: The Big Fat Trap Sat, 12 May 2012 00:06:21 -0400 Part 1: Celebs rake in big bucks by losing weight through endorsement deals.
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| Yo-Yo Diets Mean Big Pay for Celebs Mon, 14 May 2012 10:39:47 -0400 As the success of celebrities like Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley shows, waging a public battle with the bulge is no longer a detour from stardom but rather an opportunity for big money.
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| Watch: Weight Loss Through a Tube Sat, 12 May 2012 00:16:29 -0400 Part 2: The feeding tube diet has everyone talking.
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| 100M Fuel $20B Weight Loss Industry Mon, 14 May 2012 10:51:42 -0400 When you're trying to lose weight, the number that sees to matter most is the one you see on the scale. But there are plenty of other compelling numbers coming out of the growing weight-loss industry. Learn 10 surprising statistics about weight loss in the United States.
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| Watch: Promises, Promises Sat, 12 May 2012 00:09:36 -0400 Part 3: Dieters keep regaining weight.
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| Watch: Five Die After Lap-Band Surgery Sat, 12 May 2012 00:03:14 -0400 Questions raised about weight-loss clinics run by Omidi brothers of cable fame.
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| 1-800-Get-Thin Under Fire for Lap-Band Surgery Deaths Fri, 11 May 2012 23:31:20 -0400 Few doctors have made more money in the weight-loss business than Beverly Hills brothers, Julian and Michael Omidi. The brothers, who once were featured in the cable program "Dr. 90210," are the men behind a heavily advertised Southern California business called 1-800-GetThin that has made millions of dollars offering an outpatient procedure that constricts the stomach with what's called a "Lap-Band."
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| Watch: A Diet for the Rich Sat, 12 May 2012 00:08:41 -0400 Part 5: A program offered by a luxury Swiss hotel eschews deprivation.
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| Watch: Xtreme Parents: Bribes or Rewards? Tue, 08 May 2012 10:45:51 -0400 Part 1: Millionaire Vegas entrepreneur pampers her kids in outrageous ways.
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| Watch: Xtreme Parents: Shooting Up a Computer Tue, 08 May 2012 10:52:27 -0400 Part 2: Tommy Jordan became a YouTube legend after shooting daughter's laptop.
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| Watch: Xtreme Parents: The 'Real Seven Dwarves' Tue, 08 May 2012 11:07:33 -0400 Part 3: Dwarf parents Amber and Trent Johnston are raising five dwarf children.
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| Watch: Xtreme Parents: Growing Up Nudist Tue, 08 May 2012 11:10:20 -0400 Part 4: Meet the Reamers, a family of four living at a nudist camp.
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| Watch: Xtreme Parents: Extreme Sports Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:23 -0400 Part 5: Children ride bulls, drive monster trucks with parents' encouragement.
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| Judge Deals a Blow to John Edwards Wed, 16 May 2012 19:57:29 -0400 John Edwards abruptly rested his case today, but his defense was dealt a blow when the federal judge said she will set a lower bar than Edwards' legal team had sought for convicting the former presidential candidate of violating the federal campaign finance law.
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| Steven Powell: Guilty of Voyeurism Wed, 16 May 2012 22:15:51 -0400 Steven Powell, the father-in-law of missing woman Susan Powell, was found guilty of voyeurism in a Washington court today for taking inappropriate images of neighborhood girls using the bathroom and showering. He could be sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
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| Zimmerman Med Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:40 -0400 A medical report compiled by George Zimmerman's family physician and obtained exclusively by ABC News, show that Zimmerman was diagnosed with "closed fracture" a broken nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head, and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot 17 year old Trayvon Martin after an alleged altercation. Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the February 26th shooting that left the unarmed 17 high school junior dead. Zimmerman had claimed self defense in what he described as a life and death struggle that Martin initiated by accosting him, punching him in the face, then repeatedly bashing his head into the pavement.
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| Woman With Flesh-Eating Disease Celebrates Small Victories Wed, 16 May 2012 10:42:06 -0400 Aimee Copeland, who lost her leg to a flesh-eating infection after a zip-line injury, is smiling, laughing and mouthing, 'love you.'
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| Medal of Honor Given to Vietnam Hero Wed, 16 May 2012 19:06:28 -0400 42 years after a selfless act of heroism during the Vietnam war saved the lives of his fellow soldiers, Army Specialist Leslie H. Sabo Jr. will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on Wednesday. President Obama will present the nation's highest decoration for valor to Sabo's widow, Rose Mary Brown, and brother, George Sabo.
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| How Did This Woman Lose More Than 100 Pounds? Tue, 08 May 2012 09:12:44 -0400 Italian doctor says he's developed more than just a quick fix.
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| Ga. Family 'The Real Life Seven Dwarfs' Fri, 04 May 2012 12:49:32 -0400 The Johnston family, from Barnesville, Ga., is extreme in many ways. Standing no more than four feet tall, they like to call themselves "the real life seven dwarfs." They are the largest family of achondroplasia dwarfs, a type of dwarfism that affects the extremities.
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| Growing Up Nudist: A Naked Childhood Fri, 04 May 2012 12:01:56 -0400 The Reamers are nudists, and they're raising their 9-year-old son at a Florida nudist colony. They say their way of life reinforces positive values.
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| 7 Ways Waiters Can Get Revenge Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:45:30 -0400 If you ever worked for gratuities, you have more than likely felt the compulsion to seek revenge against nasty customers and bad tippers. Sometimes, waiters cross the line and can turn into the "waiter from hell" in order to stay sane, as wait staff veterans -- including Steve Dublanica, author of "Waiter Rant"-- revealed to "20/20."
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| Savanna Samson: Confessions of a Porn Star-Turned-Mom Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:42:15 -0400 "I'm a porn star, yes ... and I don't mind that title. ... It's given me a life of luxury and success," said Natalie Oliveros. But while Oliveros -- better known by the stage name Savanna Samson -- doesn't shrink from explaining to "20/20" what she does for a living, she has been less forthcoming with her son.
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| Getting High With Celebs: Gossip Columnist's Twisted Tale Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:02:14 -0400 Ever wonder what it's like to party with a celebrity? Chris Gardner knows all too well. As a gossip columnist, it was his job to spend six nights a week living it up with the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Britney Spears and more. But seven years of fast Hollywood living eventually took its toll. "This town chewed me up and spit me out," he said.
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| It's Complicated: Families Open Up About Open Marriage Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:46:11 -0400 To most people, the idea of their loved one dating and having passionate sex with other people is repellent. But for two married couples -- with children -- in Somerville, Mass., and thousands more across the country, this is the happy, stable norm.
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| Fighting for India's Vanishing Daughters Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:31:36 -0400 Deesh Sekhon is an Indian woman. In a way, this makes her a survivor of an appalling human-rights catastrophe. It's called gendercide: the killing of female children to avoid paying dowry to future husbands' families, a deep-set custom in Indian culture. Every month nearly 50,000 female fetuses are aborted, and untold numbers of baby girls are abandoned or murdered. When she saw a story on it, Sekhon was shocked into action.
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| College Student Suffers From 'Hatred of Sound' Tue, 15 May 2012 08:39:23 -0400 Emma Riehl lives with misophonia, a rare and mostly unknown condition.
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| Crash Survivor Mom Celebrates With Fifth 'Miracle' Child Sun, 13 May 2012 07:00:55 -0400 The day your first book hits stores is a big one for any first-time author, but on April 3 — the publication date of her now best-seller, “Heaven Is Here” — Stephanie Nielson was preoccupied with something else: the birth of her fifth child, Charlotte. Charlotte was...
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| The Wine and Chocolate Diet? Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:49 -0400 Wine and chocolate are OK on "chrono-nutritionist" Patrick Leconte's diet.
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| Watch: Former Edwards Aide Tells All Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:15:10 -0500 Aide recalls candidate's illicit affair, from meeting at bar to talk of wedding.
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| Upcoming Book Made Edwards Admit Paternity? Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:16:37 -0500 John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young says the one-time presidential contender admitted he was the father of Rielle Hunter's baby only because Young's upcoming book includes irrefutable evidence.
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.