Where'D The Whiz Kids Go?
475530
By Nick Perry, The Seattle Times  Sep. 17--Seattle could become the new Detroit.   A once-proud hub of innovation left to languish as brilliant people, new  ideas and dazzling products bubble up elsewhere.
750739
By Tim Mekeel, Lancaster New Era, Pa.  Feb. 23--Bill Wydra Jr. wasn't ready to leave. Not just yet.    Around him, the job fair in Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology's gym  was winding down.    Students were filing out, company brochures in hand.
547226
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Zookeepers, police and animal control officers followed five runaway wildebeests through a residential area Tuesday after they escaped from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.
527408
In 2001, Tom Hall, a software project manager laid off during the dot-com implosion, embarked on a round-the-world trip across three continents. He couldn't carry all the travel guidebooks he needed and ended up scouring Kathmandu for a guide to his next destination, Tanzania.
208595
. (antiMUSIC) &quot;We all need some compensation,&quot; says a group of former London state school kids that sang the famous chorus &quot;We don&#39;t need no education&quot; in Pink Floyd&#39;s &quot;Another Brick In The Wall.
657433
Jeff Jagodzinski left a lot behind when he came to Boston College. He left the state in which he was raised, the place where he went to high school and college. He left the National Football League and the safety/anonymity that comes with being an assistant coach. He left the Green Bay Packers, who were the only show in town.
393239
Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.
540663
Back when city teams were routinely shredding the rest of Division 2 at the start of the decade, Boston was virtually the only place to find boys' basketball excellence in the state. Teams such as Charlestown and East Boston had a chokehold on the rest of the Commonwealth, and seemingly no one else had a chance.
185861
OK, shredders, dudes, dudettes, rugrats, whippersnappers, all of you out of the room. Go find something else to do today. Clean your room or something. This one's for your parents, or even grandparents.
485527
METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
672953
By Jeff Brown, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Dec. 10--When my son was 7 or 8, I spent several dreadful afternoons attending birthday parties at a place called Chuck E. Cheese. Dreadful for me, that is -- the children loved the noise, the pizza, and the beeping arcade games.
83917
Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
556490
We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
17210
They were orphans. Some of them killed. Now the entertainment industry is all over them
461333
My British school days were a kindergarten Battle of the Bulge. I grew up, half German, a generation after the Second World War and my school friends fought the Hun in the playground every lunchtime.
726257
By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 2--As teenagers, Chris Wolff and Shae Statser turned away from church when they believed their churches had turned away from them. But God had no trouble finding them once they started college.
131778
HOUSTON - Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the United States.    Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive mother abandoned them in Nigeria in October and later went to work in Iraq as a private contractor...