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...very positive experience for a young child. We got our first computer in 1988, when our youngest son was 4, and it was love at first sight. He's now 24 and works as a software developer. We always encouraged all his diverse interests; he played varsity soccer and sang in the school choir in high school and spent a student year in Japan when he was in college. With the right parental support, you never know how far a child's early fascination can take him. Barbara Kelsey, Crystal Lake, Illinois...
...very positive experience for a young child. We got our first computer in 1988, when our youngest son was 4, and it was love at first sight. He's now 24 and works as a software developer. We always encouraged all his diverse interests; he played varsity soccer and sang in the school choir in high school and spent a student year in Japan when he was in college. With the right parental support, you never know how far a child's early fascination can take him. Barbara Kelsey, CRYSTAL LAKE...
...first to undergo it, used to be limited to players in their 20s and older, but it is now performed on kids as young as 12--not surprising if they started pitching excessively at age 8 or 9. Similarly, stress fractures in the backs of middle-school football and soccer players have nearly doubled over the past decade as a result of overtraining...
...life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Communities that have fought for years have laid down their weapons. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply teaching the three Rs; they are also nation-building. Julia M. Bolz, Founder Journey with an Afghan School, SEATTLE...
There's no event so passionate in English soccer as a derby fixture - Liverpool vs. Everton, say, or Arsenal vs. Tottenham - where the intense local rivalry is felt for miles around the ground, and the pride on the pitch makes for snappier tackles and that extra ounce of effort as fans steeped in decades of local rivalry spur their team forward. But would those games offer quite the same spectacle if they were played in Beijing or New York? The hundreds of millions of fans who tune in to TV broadcasts of the English Premier League each week may soon...