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...home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures. She also enrolled her youngest son in preschool and signed up for a welfare-to-work program. Today Sangermano lives with her son in a two-bedroom apartment, works part-time and is taking college classes. She hopes to bring the two older boys home from foster care soon. "This program helped save my life," she says. "And helped me be a part of my kids' life." --With reporting by Caryn M. Gracey/Milwaukee and Laura A. Locke/Contra...
...believe it, says photographer Laura Kleinhenz, who has roamed Florida's retirement havens in search of senior romance. Older people, she says, "have a level of needs and passion that most people are completely unaware of." The moments she has captured, from a dating auction to a bedroom embrace, are punctuated by grace, fun and touches of fire. With Valentine's Day approaching, they remind us that love is not only possible at any age, but necessary. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
...Going mike-to-Mike with Ms. Dynamite for best album is another act that came from nowhere last year: the Streets. Skinner, a 23-year-old from Birmingham by way of Brixton, made his debut album, Original Pirate Material, in his bedroom with his earnings from a job at Burger King. Skinner blends dance beats, garage and hip-hop, but also fronts socially aware lyrics. His album tells of a day in the life of a "geezer" - an ordinary bloke whose existence is an endless run of cafés, strong lager, drugs, raving, failure with women, and kebab shops...
...parents are also helping. Unlike most other rookies, who must simultaneously cope with the rigors of the NBA's nonstop schedule and the novelty of living alone for the first time, Yao, an only child, shares a four-bedroom Houston manse with his mom, dad and Pine. ("I do have my own bedroom," jokes Pine, 29, a former U.S. government document translator.) "The fact that my parents are here," says Yao, "has made my adjustment to American life much easier, although, really, there hasn't been anything that difficult to get adjusted...
Dropped by his label, he built a recording studio—called the Sonic Promiseland—in his Los Angeles bedroom and recorded 36 songs, each in one take. Word-of-mouth hype, coupled with brief mention in the New York Times and support from The Roots, generated anticipation for an album release as unique as the artist himself. Turning down record deals reaching seven figures, ChesnuTT sold the first pressings of The Headphone Masterpiece on his website, with his cousin as manager...