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...classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather Dawes, held their income to $22,900--33% over the poverty line--to qualify for Medicaid...
Despite his Ivy-League education and relatively peaceful childhood, it cannot be questioned that Kerouac spoke from experience on the points of adventure and staying in motion. The wild lives of his fictional characters were only surpassed by those of the writer himself and his bohemian friends. Although truth be told, separating these two groups is not so simple—Kerouac’s eclectic friendships were in many cases thinly disguised models for those Sal Paradise found on the road...
...cousin’s basement. “Sometimes they would tie me up with belts and I would like getting out of them,” she says. “I thought it was a really fun game.” Lillian’s childhood pastime grew into an adult fantasy by the time she reached adolescence. She began running Internet searches to find sadomasochistic material. But the Internet became more than a means to sexual gratification for Lillian. A three-month online romance with a fellow Harvard student eventually convinced her she had found love...
Sitting in a couch at the front of the dining room, Karzai describes her childhood in a family of dedicated Afghan politicians. She speaks frankly in her heavily-accented English...
...Princeton lineup includes defender and captain and Aviva Grumet-Morris, sister to Harvard men’s freshman goalie Dov, and sophomore forward Lisa Rasmussen, Pell’s childhood friend from Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, the Tigers’ welcome to Bright Hockey Center was hardly friendly, as the Crimson put forth a 39 shot barrage in the 7-1 rout...