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Empowering Our Kids: Stopping bullies before they start
Parents and educators are always on the lookout for new ways to address the problem of bullying. What if there were a way to keep kids from becoming bullies in the first place?
For more than 10 years, a program in Canada has been doing just that. And the simple way they’re doing it might surprise you.
In part two of our series "Empowering Our Kids," American Morning's Kiran Chetry went to Toronto, Ontario, to look at the program, called "Roots of Empathy," and see how it’s working.
Obama and Republicans' tax package explained
Yesterday, Democrats in the House of Representatives rejected a 900 billion dollar tax plan that President Obama negotiated with Republicans.
Wondering what exactly is in the tax plan?
Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large with Reuters, joins American Morning's John Roberts and Kiran Chetry to break down the plan.
Rolaids recalls 13 million packages
(CNNMoney.com) - Johnson & Johnson's McNeil division announced a recall Thursday of more than 13 million packages of various Rolaids medicines following consumer complaints of foreign materials, including metal and wood particles.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes over-the-counter drugs such as Tylenol, Rolaids, and Benadryl, said it was recalling all lots of Rolaids Extra Strength Softchews, Rolaids Extra Strength plus Gas Softchews, and Rolaids Multi-Symptom plus Anti-Gas Softchews distributed in the United States.
McNeil spokesman Marc Boston said the Rolaids recalls involve products that were made for McNeil by a third-party manufacturer. McNeil said that while the risk of serious adverse health consequences is remote, it is advising consumers who have purchased these recalled products to discontinue use.
Consumers who purchased the recalled products should contact McNeil Consumer Healthcare, either at http://www.rolaids.com/ or by calling 1-888-222-6036 about receiving a refund.
The company said consumers who have medical concerns or questions should contact their health care provider
Empowering our kids: Teaching kids to combat bullying
How do you combat bullying? It's a question that a lot of parents and schools are grappling with. In the first part of our series, Empowering our Kids, we take a look at a program started by two teachers who noticed that the kids getting bullied often lacked the social skills to know how to deal with it. So they're trying to give these kids the tools they need to stand up for themselves.
How to spot a food allergy – new guidelines make it clearer for doctors
More and more people seem to be suffering from food allergies, but it's unclear why. Until now, there has been no standard for doctors to diagnose them.
This week, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases issued the first-ever clinical guidelines for diagnosing and treating food allergies.
American Morning's Kiran Chetry speaks with Dr. Hugh Sampson, one of the authors of the new guidelines and the director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Cyber attacks ramping up in WikiLeaks support
(CNN) - Though its founder is cooling his heels in a London jail and major credit-card firms have refused to process its donations, the website WikiLeaks continued to trickle out documents from its vast cache of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables Wednesday.
WikiLeaks' supporters in the computer-hacking community turned their ire against organizations that had cut off the site. Among the targets were the website of Sweden's national prosecutor's office, which is seeking the extradition from Britain of WikiLeaks' creator and editor-in-chief, Julian Assange. The attacks have also targeted the corporate websites of Visa and MasterCard, and now Sarah Palin’s website, SarahPAC.com.
The denial of service attacks appear to be the work of a group that calls itself “Anonymous.”
Just how much chaos can these pranksters cause?
Noah Shachtman, contributing editor with Wired Magazine and editor of the “Danger Room” national security blog, joins American Morning’s John Roberts to explain who these hackers are, and who their next targets might be.
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