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Under a literary spell
As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m. "It's one of those books that will stick with me for life,"...
Tags: Teachers, Western Kentucky University, Awards and Prizes, Fantasy (genre), Charles Dickens
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Broadfording Christian Academy offers programs for special-needs students
The administration at Broadfording Christian Academy recognizes that children are not all the same, and for some children to reach their full potential, their unique needs, abilities and learning styles need to be identified and nurtured in the learning...
Tags: Learning Disability, Physical Therapy, Education, Health Treatments, Behavioral Conditions
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Esther 'Penny' Love, city guidance counselor
Esther "Penny" Love, a Baltimore public school guidance counselor for nearly 40 years who was an outspoken advocate for emotionally challenged and dyslexic students, died Monday of lung cancer at Sinai Hospital. She was 89.
Esther Shulman, whose...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Lung Cancer, Philosophy, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Psychology
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Reading clinic helping students improve
knguyen@aberdeennews.comTimothy Houge, professor of elementary and special education at Northern State University, believes it's a gift to be able to pick up a book and read it. That's what makes the reading clinic at Northern so unique and important, he said. The clinic,...Tags: Teachers, Education, Hospitals and Clinics, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Ballard High student overcomes cancer and more to be valedictorian
Q13 FOX News anchorWhile most high school kids are gearing up for finals and thinking about summer plans, one local teenager has been fighting for his life. But following a cancer diagnosis and other challenges, Ballard High School senior Mikael Perla is defying the odds....Tags: Leukemia, Diabetes, Health Treatments, Cancer, Health
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The Crowd: Joyce Bulifant to have one-woman show at Balboa Bay Club
The year was 1975. Mary Tyler Moore was starring in one of America's most watched situation comedies. After a year of knocking on doors in Hollywood and trying to land any kind of job, I was hired at CBS-Television City and sent into a windowless...
Tags: Autism, Celebrities, Mary Tyler Moore, James MacArthur, CBS Corp.
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Lancaster County family fights to allow dyslexic son to play football
Multi-Media JournalistA Warwick Township family is at odds with the school district. It's all over their son's eligibility play football for the district, while attending a special private school for his dyslexia. About two years ago, after years of struggling in school,...Tags: High School Sports, Football, Sports
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Wilson overcomes dyslexia to become IndyCar driver
Dyslexia slowed driver Justin Wilson in his pursuit of an education and his auto racing career, but it also was part of the reason he initially spent as much time as he could with the sport and it prepared him for his future. Auto racing provided...
Tags: Auto Racing, Grand Prix of Baltimore, IndyCar Series, Dale Coyne Racing, Open-Wheel Racing
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My girlfriend won't come out to her parents...again
I'm a lesbian who's been in a committed relationship with the same woman for four years. We've recently been talking about marriage and starting a family. My one concern—she hasn't told her family about our relationship. She came out to her...
Tags: Rosie O'Donnell
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Rustic, complex and delicious
San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino is perhaps best known for his passion for offal — he could be called the poster child of the "nose-to-tail" cooking movement. But his new (and his first) cookbook, "Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal," barely...Tags: Recipes, Appetizers, Book, Restaurants, Arts and Culture
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70-year-old man rides bike from LA to Boston
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA 70 year-old bicyclist takes on a 3,000 mile bike ride to raise money for a special education program. Bicyclist Larry Emigh will be riding from Los Angeles to Boston, and made a stop in Abilene today. Emigh's goal is to raise $250,000 for a program...Tags: Atlantic Ocean
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Henry Hill dies at 69; mob informant, subject of 'GoodFellas', once lived in Seattle, Redmond
Q13 Fox News Online and Los Angeles TimesHenry Hill, the infamous mob informant whose life of crime was chronicled in the film classic "GoodFellas," has died. He and his family lived for a while in Redmond and Seattle under the U.S. Marshals Witness Protection Program. He was 69 and had lived...Tags: Robert De Niro, Heart Problems, Howard Stern , Martin Scorsese, Book
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