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Denton Record-Chronicle – Denton Record Chronicle – Apr 30, 2006
The library recently invited children and teens to write the first chapter of the final book in the Harry Potter series. Molly is a home-schooled student from Denton. She is the daughter of Sarah and Ron Tester. Her siblings are Allie12 Katie 9 and David 10.
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Denton Record-Chronicle – Denton Record Chronicle – Apr 30, 2006
The library recently invited two age groups to write the first chapter of the final book in the Harry Potter series. Elena is a fifth-grade student at Sam Houston Elementary School. She is the daughter of Stephen and Carolla Souris. Her brother Alexander is 7.
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Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News – Apr 30, 2006
Marinaro is the first blind student to graduate from FGCU and did so magna cum laude with a College of Arts and Sciences degree. Both the singer and the author J. Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter series overcame enormous obstacles to get to where they are Marinaro says. Challenges she likens to her own. It takes her more than double the time to study than most of the 7000 other students on the FGCU campus.
Hey Brits you’re more American than you know
Times Online – Apr 30, 2006
And yet I remain unconvinced. Culture still matters and on that score Britain is still closer to America than almost any other country. I don’t mean simply the number of San Franciscans downloading Ricky Gervais podcasts or the ubiquity in American pop culture of reality television created in Britain or even the cross-cultural franchises of Harry Potter Tolkien or The Simpsons. I mean rather a residual tenacious sense that the individual is responsible for his own destiny. Some 82% of Americans ascribe lack of success in life to the individual rather than to society and 75% of Brits share this view. Even on religion the differences are less profound than you might think. Yes Americans are much more observant but not that much more godly.
School at UCSF Medical Center lets kids learn while they heal
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 30, 2006
” It’s a monthly event and even patients confined to their beds can play because a cameraman films it and they watch on the televisions in their rooms. There were of course lots of questions. What do you call a bunch of grasshoppers? How about a group of wombats? Which band is made up of five brothers? Prizes — Harry Potter books kites San Francisco Giants backpacks — were the payoff for answers like swarm mob and the Jackson 5. At the end of each school day teachers enter attendance in their computers fax the students’ work to their usual schools and give updated reports. Some sessions are more productive than others. “You have to deal with the givens of the children you work with here” Cassman said. “They work when they feel like working.