41.   Proceeds go to the Starlight Foundation, which helps seriously ill children.

42.   Satire of showbiz types and the pathos of terminally ill children are not the freshest dramatic materials.

43.   She favors workers getting paid time off to care for ill children, rather than subsidized spots in sick-child care centers.

44.   She donated the blood from her umbilical cord and placenta with the understanding it could potentially cure a fatally ill child.

45.   She rescued dozens of mentally ill children from the dangers of warfare in the Muslim part of the city.

46.   Should the procedure work, it could help many severely ill children with sickle cell anemia who do not have a relative with matching bone marrow.

47.   She allowed the blood from her umbilical cord to be collected and stored with the understanding it could one day cure a fatally- ill child.

48.   Someof the proceeds will go to pay the medical bills of an ill child in thecommunity, Ruthann says.

49.   Some daycare centers set aside space to care for mildly ill children, and some hospitals have established centers.

50.   Teachers work with students for weeks and, in cases of very ill children, sometimes years, Thompson said.