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...Thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Laskey of Gray, Me., gets $25 a month deposited into her iCanBuy account in lieu of an allowance. So far Elisabeth has bought some CDs, pencils and shirts. "I've only been on for a couple months, so I don't have much money saved yet," Elisabeth says. "But I'm thinking about saving some more and maybe donating some to charity." Elisabeth has learned one major financial lesson from her online shopping account: "Once it's in there, it's my money, and I get to decide what I want to do with it. That...
...fourth game, everybody just came together and played as a team," Schaeffer said. "All thirteen players were ready and prepared to play...
...Dirties "like how they have an identity," observes Webster social studies teacher Jenni Wilson. With it comes a home in Gene's basement and a surrogate parent in Gene's divorced mom, Eileen Stewart, 42, a former computer consultant. Thirteen of the Dirties come to her house five days a week for an informal study program. She knows their class schedules and their family situations. They call her "Mom." But Mom has rules in her basement: no disrespect, cursing, drugs or sex. Their real parents must know where they are, and they must do their homework. Stewart keeps the basement...
...Thirteen years later, after I had devoted three weeks and countless hours of my senior year to watching postseason baseball both on TV and (thanks to the kindness of friends) at Fenway, the phone rang. It was my dad, repeating his old mantra, holding back his own frustration. I like to think I've learned a bit from my relatively short career as a Red Sox fan, that each loss is a little less painful than the one before, cushioned by the memories of errors more egregious and runners stranded even closer to home. Maybe I have, but Monday night...
...Thirteen candidates are running for the six seats on the Cambridge School Committee. Elections will be held...