By Gailon Totheroh
CBNNews.com - VANCOUVER - Millions of kids have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly called ADHD or ADD.
But questions about the diagnosis and using drugs to fight behavior problems remain.
Vancouver, Canada is the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics and where hockey rules the day for twins Scott and Spencer McHaffie. They excel at the national sport, and keep up their skills with summer practice.
But when it comes to the classroom, they get a failing grade. It was a struggle that started in pre-school. Doctors diagnosed them with ADHD at age six.
"I was struggling pretty much," Spencer said. "I didn't really get it, the strategies."
Jim, the twins' dad, said, "My wife was pulling her hair out. It was so hard. The house was always messy, they were tearing the house apart. They were very active."
"I was dealing with principals, teachers, doctors, counselors," their mom Aggie said.
She said she didn't even want to answer the phone.
"Every single day, there was a message on the machine, 'Hi, Mrs. McHaffie, it's Mrs. So-and-so, can you give me a call?' And I just dreaded it," she said.
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 As Jews around the world gathered in synagogues last Friday night to mark the start of Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — someone was apparently busy fashioning a massive swastika into several acres of a cornfield in Washington Township, N.J.
The swastika was spotted by a New Jersey State Police helicopter during a routine maintenance mission.
Local residents told the Star Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J., that they were unaware of the reviled symbol of hate.
Click here to read full story in the Star-Ledger.
"I saw helicopters, and they were circling," Debbie Tamasi told the newspaper. "I had no idea."
The Anti-Defamation League said the swastika "shows the persistence of anti-Semitism and hate."
"At a time when Jews around the world and in New Jersey are celebrating the High Holidays, we are confronted with this ugly symbol of hatred against Jews," the organization's New Jersey regional director, Etzion Neuer, told the newspaper. "Obviously, those responsible for this act were determined to deliver a message of hate on a massive scale.
Washington Township Police Chief Martin Masseroni said his department is investigating.
"We're doing everything we can to see if we can find out who did this," he ...   more »

BY SHARON SALYER
EVERETT, Wash. -- Cindi Reedes heard doctors tell her the same frightening words three times in eight days: Her teenage daughter's chances of survival were slim. It would take a near-miracle to save her from the aggressive infection ravaging her body.
The only cause doctors could guess at was the tongue piercing 18-year-old Lacey Filosa got without her mother knowing about it.
For weeks, Lacey wavered at the edge of death, kept in a drug-induced coma to give her struggling body every chance to heal. A tube kept her breathing. Operations to cut out the infection were needed nearly every day.
At her daughter's bedside, Reedes did everything a mother could to let Lacey know she was there. Doctors told her to talk to Lacey as if she were awake.
"My son and I would rub lotion on her feet," Reedes said. "I'd take her hand and say, 'We're here. Come on! Pull through this!'" Sometimes, in response, her daughter would squeeze her mother's hand.
No one can say with certainty what triggered the infection.
Doctors suspect it was linked to a tongue piercing Filosa had gotten in Everett, a type of piercing popular with young adults. ...   more »

Resolution calls for end of NAFTA superhighway, abandonment of integration with Canada, Mexico
By Jerome R. Corsi
Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va. (Photo: University of Virginia)
A House resolution urging President Bush "not to go forward with the North American Union or the NAFTA Superhighway system" is – according to its sponsor Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., in an exclusive WND interview – "also a message to both the executive branch and the legislative branch."
As WND previously reported, on Jan. 22 Goode introduced H.C.R. 40, titled "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."
The bill has been referred to the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
WND asked Goode if the president was risking electoral success for the Republican Party in 2008 with his insistence on pushing for North American integration via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP.
"Yes," Goode answered. "You won't hear the leadership in the Republic Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate ...   more »

By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent
 The regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il persecutes Christians, Open Doors says.  SEOUL/AMSTERDAM (BosNewsLife)-- At least one million North Koreans, many of them Christians, are believed to be held in North Korea's concentration camps, more than previously thought, investigators revealed Monday, September 24.   
Netherlands-based Open Doors International, a respected rights group investigating reports of persecution of Christians, told BosNewsLife that the concentration camps include eight punishment camps for political prisoners and 30 forced labor camps.    "It's possible that the number of prisoners are well over one million," said the Open Doors' North Korea director who identified himself only as 'Brother Simon' amid security concerns. Many camps are so huge that they can't be spotted on satellite images," he explained. "The camps are complete villages."
He refused to say how the Open Doors investigation had been conducted in the isolated nation, citing concerns about the safety of those involved in the research. "Many lives could be lost," he said. The Open Doors revelations come after previous reports of alleged atrocities in the camps, including in a remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China.
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