Mother recalls disabled daughter's legacy
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Ana Veciana-Suarez
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - By her own description, Beth Harry had led a charmed life: popular, top of her class, daughter of a successful doctor. Harry expected her foray into motherhood to be much the same.
But when Melanie Teelucksingh was born in September 1975, the baby could not breathe ...
Hairy heirs: Remembering pets after owners die
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Josh Shaffer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - When Anna Ruth Jones died in Durham, N.C., last week, her obituary listed a handful of cousins and special friends. But the most prominent survivor, the only one described as "cherished," was Sir Rufus of Iredell, her black and white cat. The feline's elevation to ...
World chess queen plots her next move
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Evan S. Benn
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The best women's chess player in the world flipped a dirty diaper into the trash as she pondered her next move after a dominating year. "I want to open a chess academy online, keep training, doing the podcast," South Floridian Alexandra Kosteniuk said during a recent ...
Families lucky enough to have at-home grandmothers heartily endorse the Obamas' plan
McClatchy Newspapers
1/15/2009, by Cassandra Spratling
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Calm prevails in Paul and Adrian Leek's spacious contemporary home when snow cancels class at their kids' schools in Ypsilanti, Mich. Traffic tie-ups no longer panic Dmitry and Carolina Harris, en route from work to get to their children at their Novi, Mich., home.
And ...
Teen helps ‘parent' younger, autistic siblings
McClatchy Newspapers
1/13/2009, by Gail Rosenblum
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - As a freshman in high school seeking volunteer hours, Abbey Davison applied to work one night a week with Lucy and Jacob Schneider, two Brooklyn Park, Minn., siblings with autism. She was prepared for tough questions, and tough questions she got: What did she know ...
Berkeley debuts science Web site for kids, teachers
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Matt Krupnick
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - Science doesn't have to be the boring stuff of textbooks, University of California, Berkeley, professors are telling children and their teachers. A new Web site, "Understanding Science," dispels myths about science and scientists, explaining that everything from the ...
22 years of letters from the heart
McClatchy Newspapers
1/12/2009, by Jay Levin
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - Eleanor Fleischman, 95, lives in a Hackensack, N.J., walk-up, her home since 1951. Resting on the bedroom pillow is a toy clown, a gift from her late husband, Ira. Ellie watches TV game shows and Channel 13, reads poetry, goes to church and plays rummy with ...
Great expectations: Determined teen won't let foster-care situation define him
McClatchy Newspapers
1/9/2009, by Jeff Seidel
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - A 17-year-old ward of the state sat at a computer in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., writing the most important letter of his life. It was a sales pitch to 30 prospective foster care parents in the Rochester Hills, Mich., area. He'd found them by searching through court ...
Scout's honor: Teen realizes amazing dream in honor of grandmother
McClatchy Newspapers
1/6/2009, by Dave Marcus
Newsday (MCT) - Last May, Robert Goldsmith sat down his son Shawn to share dire news. "Grandma's going to be dying soon," he said.
Shawn, then 17, a senior at Oceanside High School on New York's Long Island, and an Eagle Scout, decided to honor his grandmother, Celia, by earning all 121 merit ...
Cell phones can aid students, educator argues
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009, by Lori Higgins
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Cell phones have become unwelcome in most schools, because of fears about cheating, distractions and the reality that some students have used them to take and spread inappropriate pictures. But a new book written by a local educator argues that cell phones also are ...
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