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Recently, there's an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet: going bald to fight cancer. A Face book page titled �Beautiful and Bald Barbie Let�s see if you can get it made �was started before Christmas .By Wednesday afternoon, the page had more than 16,000 fans. The ambition is to get toy maker Mattel Inc. to produce a bald Barbie in support of children with cancer. Friends Rebecca Sypin and Jane Bingham, who live on opposite coasts but have both been affected by the disease cancer, hatched the idea to use Barbie for the movement because she's such a admired children's toy. Bingham has lost her hair due to chemotherapy treatments to treat lymphoma. Sypin's 12-year-old daughter, Kin Inich, also lost her hair this year in her own battle with leukemia disease. Mattel didn't return calls on Wednesday seeking comment, but the women said they have contacted the company through some common form letters. In return, they said, they've r...

When they grow up, a set of infant twins in South Dakota will be able to tell people they were born in different years. Kylee Anthony was born a minute before midnight on New Year's Evening, and brother John Jr. was born three minutes into 2012.. Parents John Sr. and Jolene Anthony set claim to having the last baby of 2011 as well as the first baby of 2012 in Rapid City. "We could go buy a lottery ticket right now," John Anthony said. John, 29, a car salesman, and Jolene, 26, a store assistant manager, were married almost three years ago. Each has elder children, and they had been hoping to have children together. Ultrasounds showed they were having twins, but with a due date of Jan. 20 and a scheduled induction planned for Jan. 9, the couple never expected the babies to arrive with such New Year's fanfare. Kylee was born at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, 21 inches long and weighing 6 pounds, 2 ounces. John Jr. was born at 12:03 a.m. Sunday, measuring 19 inches and weighing 5 p...