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Kendall Shanks chewed on a few grains of rice like she was working on a porterhouse steak. Her mother, Brenda Cook, was astonished. "Oh my gosh! Look at Kendall!" her mother cried, maybe just a little too loud for a restaurant. As the 2 1/2-year-old continued her vigorous efforts, Mom pretended to chew with cartoonish exaggeration and praised her daughter more boisterously. "Kendall's such a big girl!" she said, her eyes filling with tears. She and Kendall's dad, James Shanks, giggled at their toddler's performance. It was only later they wondered what other diners thought of their response to a...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another 9-11 date with death -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com What do you call a country that sentences its prisoners to death by starvation and dehydration? Barbaric, inhumane perhaps? Fasts, even hunger strikes, often are self-imposed for periods of time. However, no one in his right mind passes up fluids. Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes....