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...dining-room table, Isiah, an eight-year-old with a toothy grin, carefully creases paper airplanes, enlisting his mother to staple them together. "Nobody makes them as well as you," she says. Can this be the same foster baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could...
...town knew members didn't always practice what was preached. They might have a food bank, might donate Christmas toys and Thanksgiving baskets, but long-term, hands-on care was left to government experts, the professional social workers. "We were like 911," says Wilhelmena Tucker, a volunteer from Foster Grove Baptist Church. "We would help in an emergency, but when the emergency was over, there was no follow...
...hand out 1000 free tickets to Cambridge seniors, which are available through the two big senior centers," said Anlee Foster, assistant to the mayor. "The city also provides transportation to and from the senior centers...
...year-old was reported to CPD as missing by his foster mother. He is a black male of Haitian descent with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen at 10:30 a.m. on July 31 at his home...
...indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer's sales expectations. Romantic relationships receive less fantastical treatment in another debut, Ken Foster's The Kind I'm Likely...