April 28, 2009
The Latino parents in the room, recent immigrants who spoke little English, thanked their local librarian and stood quietly, watching poet and author Pat Mora read to their children. After she finished and the children went outside for refreshments, Mora...
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"You know, when I was your age, we played with real Barbies," I tell the young girl sitting at the computer. She giggles and clicks the virtual Barbie on her screen, instantly changing her hair from curly blonde to straight with pink highlights.
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March 29, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Frank Bailey never let his heart attack keep him down. In fact, the incident inspired him to begin a comprehensive workout plan -- a plan from which he hasn't strayed for 17 years. But during his recovery at Moses Cone Hospital, something ha...
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March 6, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The naked blue man. The guy with the ink-blot mask in the dirty trench coat. The thug with a smiley-face button. This isn't the X-Men. Or the Avengers. Or the Justice League. In fact, these aren't superheroes as you know them. These are W...
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January 6, 2009
A state-mandated water cleanup plan with an $850 million price tag is sparking debate in local governments across Alamance County, the Town of Elon among them. At Monday night's Board of Aldermen agenda session, board members discussed the possible long......
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December 10, 2008
The Town of Elon Board of Aldermen Tuesday voted to appoint five members to the town's new library building committee. The members include Steve Trogden, Brad Moore, Rick Kiser and Judy Cobb, director of Alamance County Public Libraries. Beth Schmidt wi...
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March 7, 2008
Yesterday was National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day. Tomorrow is National Peanut Cluster Day. Today is — are you ready for this? — National Cereal Day. Believe it: an entire holiday to celebrate the food you've been eating since you were 6.
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August 20, 2007
Brittany O'Daniel wasn't prepared to find out she was pregnant. She was even less prepared for the reactions that would follow. The 17-year-old had gone to the doctor for a routine checkup and learned that she was pregnant. She cried in the doctor's offic...
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Kaya Lambert was 16 when she first met Johnny Lewis. It was summer, a time for teens to have fun and meet new people. The two began dating after they met that July. When Kaya went to the doctor the following summer, just after her 17th birthday, she was...
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Teen pregnancy prevention programs in North Carolina take a wide variety of approaches toward lowering adolescent pregnancy rates. Outdoor recreation, theater groups, individual mentoring and free classes are only a handful of the avenues prevention progr...
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August 13, 2007
Despite recent decreases, the United States has still has the worst rates of teen pregnancy in the developed world. In 2004, the United States' overall rate of teen pregnancy was calculated at 760,000, meaning that every hour, more than 87 teens become...
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The Adolescent Parenting Program, based out of the Exchange Club Family Center in Alamance, is designed to serve pregnant or parenting high school students 18 and under. The program's two primary goals are to prevent second pregnancies in teen mothers an...
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Ashleigh Graham found out she was pregnant the summer after she turned 14. After she skipped a period, she and a friend went to Dollar Tree and picked up two home pregnancy tests. The first came out positive and the second came out negative. Later, Ashlei...
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Unlike many teen moms, Megan Lambert, 17, was already married when she got pregnant. She met her husband, Jonathan Lambert, 20, when she was 15 and attending Cummings High School. They dated for about nine months before deciding to get married and moving...
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Megan Lambert's struggle is a common one for teen parents: 7 out of 10 adolescent mothers drop out of school before they have earned their high school diploma, according to the Robin Hood report "Kids Having Kids." Fewer than one-third of teen...
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Despite recent decreases, the United States has still has the worst rates of teen pregnancy in the developed world.
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Unlike many teen moms, Megan Lambert, 17, was already married when she got pregnant. She met her husband, Jonathan Lambert, 20, when she was 15 and attending Cummings High School. They dated for about nine months before deciding to get married and moving...
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Ashleigh Graham found out she was pregnant the summer after she turned 14. After she skipped a period, she and a friend went to Dollar Tree and picked up two home pregnancy tests. The first came out positive and the second came out negative. Later, Ashlei...
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The Adolescent Parenting Program, based out of the Exchange Club Family Center in Alamance, is designed to serve pregnant or parenting high school students 18 and under. The program's two primary goals are to prevent second pregnancies in teen mothers an...
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Megan Lambert's struggle is a common one for teen parents: 7 out of 10 adolescent mothers drop out of school before they have earned their high school diploma, according to the Robin Hood report "Kids Having Kids." Fewer than one-third of teen...
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