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...that wasn't grounded in anything, but it got distributed anyway--and someone exaggerated what it said. It was somebody grasping at straws, someone who was on the periphery and not knowing really what was going on." And that someone guessed that the female in question must have been Jessica Lynch and told the Washington Post. "I think," another senior military official admits, "it was the Army looking for a hero...
Their joy at Jessica's survival smacked headlong into her actual condition. When her parents first saw her in the intensive-care unit in Landstuhl, "we didn't know where we could touch her," Dee recalls. "She's this tiny thing in this big bed, and the first thing I saw was the bag of blood. Then you really know it was serious." The front of her head was shaved because of a laceration; the perfect bangs were gone. "It was so sad," Dee remembers. She had brought her camcorder--and never took it out of its case. These weren...
...Jessica, she still wants to travel (she wants to see Hawaii, she says, and Jamaica ...), go to college, still wants to teach, but only after she has come further in physical therapy and can hope to keep up with the kindergartners. "It's time," she says, sitting on the stationary bike, gritting her teeth. "It just ... takes ... time." She has that now, and other advantages as well. "She is a good kid, and her parents are good people," Argyros says. "If there's anybody who's going to come out of this and get back as normal as she possibly...
...JESSICA LYNCH: He talked about how you could travel and see all these different kinds of places. And then he was like, "You can get an education while you go there." And I was like, "Yeah, you know that would be cool if I could have a job plus go to school at the same time. Yeah, that would be cool...
...Little Dinosaur, downloadable on littlekids rock.org is a child-size Sgt. Pepper's--era Beatles tune. The musical styles range from rap to folk rock. When a classmate plays a moody new original at North Star one morning, "it makes me think of some old Bob Dylan stuff," says Jessica Dunston, 16, who is proud of her broad taste in music. "Most of my friends like hip-hop. I like that. I like punk," she says, ticking off a finger. "And heavy metal, speed metal, grunge, Sade, Prince, Jimi Hendrix ..." You get the idea. Like the kids in School...