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Welsh restaurant Frankie and Benny's served booze to toddler A RESTAURANT chain has apologised for accidentally serving alcohol to a toddler in Wales, calling it a case of human error. The BBC reported that two-year-old Sonny Rees was taken to a hospital emergency room after drinking whisky at his second birthday party at a Frankie and Benny's restaurant in Swansea. His mother, Nina Rees, said he was clearly intoxicated. She said she tasted his drink, which was supposed to be lime juice and water, after noticing that he was making a funny face. "It was whisky, I would say a...

May 29, 2005 'But I Neeeeeed It!' She Suggested By ALEX WILLIAMS LAST Christmas, Kristi Stangeland, a mother of two who lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., made a grievous mistake: she bought her 14-year-old daughter, Erika Hinman, a shiny new MP3 player. But it was the wrong MP3 player. "I tried to get away with getting her an MP3 player that was $100 cheaper," Ms. Stangeland explained sheepishly. "I was in the biggest dog box," she said, recalling Erika's crestfallen response. "She went to school, and everyone else had got an iPod for Christmas. It was like, 'How come everyone else...

Shelby Raley spent last weekend sketching on a notepad, filling it with her ideas of what girls her age should wear. She's 9, a fourth-grader at North Elementary in Fair Oaks, and she knows she doesn't belong in skintight T-shirts with "I Flirt" and "Take Me Home" printed in big letters across the chest. Little girls always want to be big girls, at least until the age of 40, when they'd like to start looking younger again. The fashion industry knows this, which is why a flood of highly age-inappropriate clothes are being marketed for kids. Porn star chic, let's...