When I was a kid, the couple across the path used to scream and shout and throw kitchen utensils at each other and beat their kids.

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Other complaints of abuse, of guards ordering inmates to beat up other kids, and findings of destroyed evidence were also revealed.

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Yeah, I know you thought your Hello Kitty digicam was some hot stuff, but believe it or not the kids at Darpa have even got that one beat.

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And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pickup, building code enforcement all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continues to haunt us.

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Gaga has not abandoned the core element of her craft the steady thump of Euro disco, a beat accessible to people who are older than the misfit club kids who find religion at her live shows.

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So as summer comes to an end and you are looking to get the kids back in the mode for school, how can you beat something that gets you outside, spelling and does not require taking the iPhone away?

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Many other iReporters said they also felt bad about exercise as kids and posted their own ideas for pleasurable alternatives that could help beat obesity.

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It's like kids, to get them to behave right you can't just beat them up all the time, can you?

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Full of kids, dogs and golf clubs, it is prosperous and unremarkable, except for details like the beat-up cracker box brimming with the household pot stash and the note on the fridge that reads: "Gretchen called: Probation!"

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Based on the deluge of tweets, emails, and Facebook messages and the retaliatory bullying her underage kids were subject to, McCarren announced on her Facebook wall that she was taking herself off the beverage beat and handing the reins over to a colleague.

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