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...numerous venues in and around Atlanta, about 800 11-to-13-year-old students--some to please their mothers, but many to please themselves--have signed up this year with the Cotillion group, which has for decades been teaching dancing as part of a total package of social skills...
...U.S.A. "The principles taught in ballroom are skills that children can carry over into other areas. It is like tennis or golf--when you are taught the fundamentals, you have the ability to develop good form throughout." Middle schoolers in particular benefit from ballroom, believes Tammy Hutchinson of the Atlanta-based Cotillion group, because "they're trying to find themselves at a hugely self-conscious time in their lives. And they don't have many social opportunities. So we provide a supervised, structured environment where they can learn something but also have a lot of fun." That's why Caryl...
...fasting, because what is happening in Burma is so horrendous I cannot even imagine what it's like," wrote Julia Earl, a student at Emory University in Atlanta, in an e-mail. "When there is torture, forced labor, censorship, destruction of the environment, and killing, something has to be done; these are the conditions in Burma, so I cannot sit around and do nothing...
...Reported by David Bjerklie and Andrea Dorfman/New York, Wendy Cole/Chicago, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Helen Gibson/London, David S. Jackson/Los Angeles, Leora Moldofsky/Sydney, Timothy Roche/ Atlanta, Chris Taylor/San Francisco, Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas and Dick Thompson/Washington, with other bureaus...
...physician who has embraced non-traditional medicine is Dr. Felecia L. Dawson, an obstetrician/gynecologist from Atlanta. After going into private practice, Dawson says she realized that "what I had been taught in medical school was insufficient to help my patients heal...