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“I consider myself lucky because I had a backpack,” he said at a TED Talk in June in Traverse City, Michigan. “And because along the way I found some of the most beautiful, compassionate and courageous people that not only helped me through this time but who have left a lasting impression stamped on my heart.”
Benjamin Banneker carved and drew. He figured and thought some more, and he dreamed. Could a man make a working clock from scraps and scratch?
Grandma is the best cook ever! She’s second only to Mom, who makes your favorite foods every day.
In the new book “I Am Jazz” by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, with pictures by Shelagh McNicholas, you’ll read about a girl who’s just like other girls … only different. That’s because Jazz has “a girl brain but a boy body.”
Your first few days of going to school are gonna be big.
From the first moment you saw him, you knew he was The One.
Sometimes, you have a good nose for trouble.
Loaded with hundreds of full-color pictures and thousands of cool factlets, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Strikingly True” is one of those books you can rest assured kids will love to read because of the subject matter inside it.
What they’ll find in here will satisfy their curiosity and appeal to their sense of odd. Because this book is so browseable, it fits any attention span and several reading levels (although — beware — some of what’s in here might be too scary for smaller kids). And because it’s the same Ripley’s you grew up with, this is one of those books you can get caught reading, too.
With winter about to wrap Southern Nevada in its chilly grip, it’s time to save water by changing your watering clock to follow the community’s mandatory winter watering restrictions.
From Nov. 1 through Feb. 28, sprinkler irrigation is limited to one assigned day per week; sprinkler watering is always prohibited on Sunday. Find your assigned watering day at snwa.com.
The Athletics Las Vegas ballpark is beginning to take shape following the first few months of construction.
The high in the Las Vegas Valley was 81 degrees, 6 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service said.
Two days before thousands of Nevadans on food stamps are slated to lose nutritional benefits, state lawmakers affirmed $30 million to help food banks stay afloat.
It’s unclear what kinds of tests he ordered and how Nevada — home of the nation’s nuclear stockpile — would be affected.
