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Soweto Gospel Choir puts on a show for ESPN ESPN scored some soul recently when the Soweto Gospel Choir sang and danced at its campus. It may have been the greatest performance ESPN has seen. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Horror and hope in Haiti When Rayna Allonce, a high school junior in Pennsylvania, saw on television the way a powerful earthquake had crumbled buildings in her native Haiti, she “didn’t think there would be much hope” for family members living in the Caribbean nation. -- By Gokce Yurekli
Storm strands Dutch passengers A December snowstorm left Dutch travelers waiting at train stations for a chance to get home.-- By Caroline Nelissen
Dutch debate Sinterklaas' "Black Pete" While children in most Christmas-celebrating countries find presents under the Christmas tree, Dutch children look forward to gifts during their Sinterklaas celebration, delivered by Saint Nicholas' black helper, Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete"). -- By Caroline Nelissen
Recession is clobbering kids, officials told A package of stories focusing on how the recession is affecting young people in Connecticut, based on testimony before a special legislative hearing.-- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins, Francis Byrne, Mary Majerus-Collins and Yelena Samofalova
A package of stories focusing on several professors who are writing a wide range of music in Connecticut. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Invasion of the Lego people, large and small In normal life, it’s impossible to see creations involving tens of thousands of Legos, but this weekend’s Lego Kidsfest at the Connecticut Convention Center offered more than a kid can imagine. -- By Francis Byrne, Yelena Samofalova and Mary Majerus-Collins
New England Lego Users builds big scenes with small bricks Towering skyscrpers and city trains. An amusement park. Cafes and parks, even a marching band, all made out of Legos. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins and Clare Hern Playing the keys off the piano Fourteen-year-old Alma Macbride probably never imagined that she would someday perform with famous trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center. -- By Yelena Samofalova
Can you imagine feeling three times the force of gravity? Astronault Kenneth Ham can, because he’s lived it. -- By Francis Byrne
Jet plows into South African school's ballfield A passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Durban, South Africa and came to rest in three pieces on a playing field that would have been busy exct for a national holiday. -- By Nicole Megan Gounder
With an eye to future, German youth head to the polls Many young Germans are voting for the first time today. -- By Katie Grosser
German students react to school massacre After a former student's deadly attack on a German high school, teens are talking about what could have prevented the massacre. -- By Katie Grosser -- By Wesley Saxena and Kiernan Majerus-Collins
As I walked into school that day, I saw tears in the eyes of worried-looking students all around me. These were boarding students from Mumbai who either weren't able to contact their family in the disaster-struck city, or worse, knew that some relative was actually at the scene. -- By Janani Ramachandran
Obama: 'We can't afford to wait' On the scene at an Obama rally
Wreck-less driving The parents of two teens killed in a high speed wreck last summer are using their own sorrowful experience to try to stop other young drivers from taking the same deadly risks. -- By Rachel Glogowski
Suicide bomber rips apart my city The rain of sadness dropped in Peshawar last week when a suicide bomber struck a busy market across town from where I live. Twenty seven people were killed in the carnage and many more seriously injured at the scene, where body parts were scattered in a business hub of Peshawar, a city in the northwest part of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. -- By Edrees Kakar A newsman's struggle to survive war injuries Within days of waking from his 36-day coma, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff found himself at a loss for words – literally. Woodruff, the victim of a roadside bomb while on assignment for ABC in Iraq, said that out of all his ailments, he finds his memory loss the most frustrating. -- By Rachel Glogowski and Beth Pond Journalism suffers a blow in Indiana When high school sophomore Megan Chase wrote a column for her Indiana school newspaper calling for tolerance of homosexuals, she didn’t think it would be big deal. -- By Zach Brokenrope Meeting the yeti on Disney's Everest coaster Since the highly anticipated opening last spring of the Expedition Everest rollercoaster, Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park has been attracting a wider variety of visitors, and now thrill-seekers are among them. -- By Sean Soltys God Bless you, Mr. Vonnegut “Everyone should have the experience of reading his books once in a lifetime,” said Thea Condaxis, of Calais, Vermont. -- By Beth Pond
Radio days: looking back on a life in Bristol -- By Rachel Glogowsk Immigrants in school, through an educator's eyes -- By Taylor Isenhour Mystery surrounds dead ducks at Bristol Eastern Lieberman fights anti-war surge in Connecticut Tucson students rally for immigrants Thousands of Arizona youth demonstrated peacefully last week against a proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants – and many walked out of their schools to take part in the protests. -- By Alkhansa el-Bedawi Bye Bye Birdie coming soon to Bristol Eastern -- By Rachel Glogowski
Getting paid for playing around Conceiving birth control clock Terryville teen pens books on high school life Surviving a killer quake in Pakistan El Salvador survives triple threat At 14, she worked in a Bristol clock factory Trying to bring tolerance to Terryville Principal's cell phone hang-ups anger students Iraq War protesters feel lucky Student-run play gets new direction On the first baseline at the World Series
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The Tattoo checks out Connecticut's art museums
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Review of Sanchez's Rainbow Road
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