Word: isabel
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...GROW, GIRLS! In dribs and drabs, we're seeing this category grow. Scholastic weighed in with The Royal Diaries and the Dear America series, both featuring spunky heroines in such titles as Isabel, Jewel of Castilla (the former) and Color Me Dark (the latter). The Ruby Princess Runs Away (Blackboard Entertainment) refreshingly showcases the possibility that not every girl is born with the act-like-a-princess gene...
...screen. This virtual family visit is part of a new pilot program, Reading Family Ties, run by the Florida Department of Corrections in an effort to help incarcerated mothers and their kids bond. But when her mom disappears from the screen, April's face crumples. "It's hard," says Isabel Strausser, the program's Miami coordinator. "A lot of times kids cry and beg me to let their mothers...
...ironically, even though these are definitely role models for your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight...
...categories, completed the hat trick for China. However, it was Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva who won the first women's Olympic gold with a total lift of 190 kg in the 48-kg class. And surprise results gave Soraya Jimenez Mendivil Mexico's first weight-lifting gold, while Maria Isabel Urrutia will be taking home Colombia's first-ever Olympic medal. Jimenez Mendivil outlifted Korea's Asian champion, Song Hui Ri, in the 58-kg category after hot favorite Ri blew her chances of gold when, with two lifts remaining, she inexplicably failed to make a second attempt within...
...know at school sometimes you want to talk and start moving around," said Isabel Hilliard, age seven. "With dancing you can have fun. You can do what you feel like...