You're ready for the kids to mow, but are they?
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9/17/2008, by Brian McTavish
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Whether seen as a rite of passage or merely a seasonal chore, one thing's for sure: There's still time to cut the grass, kids. But at what age can youngsters safely mow the lawn?
"There are kids mature enough to handle it by 9 or 10," said lawn disciple Jerry Moore, ...
The Downturn: Coping is common thread for two families in different circumstances
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9/16/2008, by Gina Kim
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The Buxton family's life is stacked on shelves and piled into plastic bins in a corrugated metal warehouse behind a fire station in an industrial part of Sacramento, Calif. For the past four months, the offices of a social service agency have been the closest thing ...
Via MySpace, Kirk Douglas wants you to get the U.S. to apologize for slavery
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9/16/2008, by Peter Larsen
The Orange County Register (MCT) - Actor Kirk Douglas has taken an old cause to a new platform, using his MySpace page to gather signatures in support of a national apology for America's past practice of slavery. It's a cause that Douglas, 91, has advocated for years, but has taken online only ...
Not too old for the road
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9/12/2008, by Jim Warren
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Today's cars are so complicated that changing spark plugs almost requires six engineers, two MIT computer-science professors and maybe four NASCAR pit crewmen. But if you want the points adjusted on a 1949 Buick; if the front suspension of your 1910 Model T has gone all ...
Father-and-son team creates furniture and accessories from barrels, found materials
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9/12/2008, by Mary Beth Breckenridge
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) - Chris Deffenbaugh can't bear to see reusable materials go to waste. So when a friend asked him to help move an old, fallen-apart barrel from his basement to the curb, Deffenbaugh saw not trash, but possibility. He reconstructed the barrel and turned it into a wine ...
Seniors citizens snared by lies on the line
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9/11/2008, by Steve Thompson
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - The phone rings, and Vivian steps toward it. The 90-year-old still walks with ease, but her living room is choked by clutter. Stacks of old papers, books and opened mail _ heaps of it _ force her through a narrow path to the grimy receiver. "Hello?"
"Did you take ...
City kids find place on triathlon mantle
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9/11/2008, by John Keilman
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - While most Tri-Masters campers are happy simply to finish a triathlon, another set of young Chicagoans enters races with a different goal in mind: Winning.
Though they've been at the sport for just one year, the Extreme Jalapenos _ a team of Hispanic kids from the Southwest ...
Here come the 80s again
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9/10/2008, by Wendy Donahue
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Sometime after 1985, Matthew Harvat stashed away his slashed, acid-washed Z. Cavaricci jeans in a moment of "This Could Be the Night" clarity. Macy's Glamorama Labor Day weekend in Chicago rewarded his planning.
For the fashion show and party themed "Pop Candy Arcade," ...
ChaCha service raises fears of cheating via cell phone
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9/10/2008, by Susan Snyder
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - A new cell-phone service that promises to give free answers to virtually any question within minutes has some academics worried that it will be yet another device to help students cheat. The Indianapolis-based ChaCha began its free service in January, and business ...
Thanks to digital cameras and Facebook, a generation documents itself like never
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9/10/2008, by Eric Adler
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - On a recent Saturday, 25-year-old Ramsey Mohsen of Fairway, Kan., did something at his parents' lake house that tens of millions of computer-savvy young people are doing more and more. He took a picture.
And then he took another and another and another and another and ...
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