Born with a hole in her heart the size of a nickel, Hadiya Hussein, a thin, shy 6-year-old, tires easily when she plays in the heat of her native Iraq. "She couldn't make more than 30 or 40 steps" before she has to sit down, her father said. But because of a compassionate local soldier who met her amid the turmoil of the war in her country, she is scheduled to undergo surgery today at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center that will allow her to play like other children and live a normal life, doctors said. During a...