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A little Christian girl from a conservative family, who is severly ill needs your attention and prayers. Please put a smile on this girl's face and visit her website and say something nice to her in her guest book. She was on Hugh Hewitt's talk radio show.

Megan (the dog) is slimmer of the year A pooch from Liverpool has become the dog slimmer of the year. Megan, a beagle from Garston, showed off her new figure next to bags of sugar weighing the same as the weight she lost. Megan went from 18.6kg down to 12.6kg losing 32% of her body weight. Dogs and cats were judged according to the amount of weight lost and their general achievement in the battle against obesity. Story filed: 13:57 Sunday 11th January 2004

Requiring sex offenders to register with police has become a popular way to give the appearance of protecting people from being attacked. But appearances can be deceiving. Every state, including Illinois, has some version of "Megan's law" -- a law named after 7-year-old Megan Kanka of New Jersey who was raped and killed by a child molester. The idea is to let residents know there is a potential sexual predator in their midst. That way neighbors can keep their children away and/or watch for suspicious behavior. But the laws have raised civil liberty concerns that requiring sex offenders to register...