For quite some time now, video games have taken the heat for leading kids into a life of passive, sedentary entertainment and helping to cause the obesity problem our nation faces. Perhaps they should take some of the heat, but a new generation of videogame amusements is getting kids up out of the chair – literally! Read more.

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Children are invited to create UNICEF greeting cards for the 2007 holiday season. Read more, and see all the news headlines.

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