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Hope
Amid Fear: by Juan Garcia
Watch her on a muddy soccer field just before Halloween,
and you'd never think there was anything amiss with Donna
Ryan. January 2001
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Taking
Charge of Education: by Allison V. Smith & Juan
Garcia
Phil Lorenz wakes his eight children around 6 a.m., but
they don't begin schoolwork until about 9 a.m. The children
are each given assignments they are expected to finish
sometime during the day. Mary Dell Lorenz keeps an eye
on her students, but they work at their own pace. The
variety in the two families' approaches is part of what
home-schooling proponents say makes their way of education
so special. December 2000
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A
Fresh Look at the State Fair of Texas: by Barbara
Davidson
It's been said that you're not a real Texan until you've
been to the State Fair. October 2000
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The
Right to Learn: by Barbara Davidson
Daisy Butler knows that many people find it hard to believe,
but she insists her family is homeless because she wants
her children to get an education. October 2000
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Small
Wonders:
by Evans Caglage
An appreciative look at nature's exquisite details. August
2000
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Pulling
Up Stakes: by Richard Michael Pruitt
The Rev. Leroy Jenkins talks. His oratories are, perhaps,
this television evangelist's most intriguing trait - the
ability to mesh fact with hyperbole, myth with vociferous
opinion. With video. September 1999
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Vanessa's
Toughest Match: by Karen Stallwood
You know it as soon as you see her, sleeping the ragged
sleep. Deep breaths. Silence. Moans. A green washcloth
covers her forehead. Vanessa 's dying. August 1999
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A
Fragile Life: by Randy Eli Grothe
Ben was born Jan. 16, 1997, to Ken and Lea Ann Buck of
Mesquite, defying one doctor's prediction that he would
not live through his own delivery. He weighed 6 pounds,
4 ounces and measured about 161/2 inches long. Doctors
couldn't give an exact length because they were afraid
to straighten his fragile body. Ben was born with 22 fractures.
June 1999
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The
Net Effect: by David Leeson
Last year, the number of U.S. households equipped with
computers edged just past 50 percent. 60 percent of those
machines - 67.5 million computers - had Net access. Computer
capabilities have stretched access farther and faster
than even the most starry-eyed visionaries had imagined.
June 1999
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Photographs
of the Millennium
Lengthy retrospectives are offering insight and analysis
on the century coming to a close. But many of these stories
can be told simply - through photographs. June 1999
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Charros:
by Juan Garcia
Defined simply, a charreada is a Mexican rodeo. Its events
are similar to the events in an American rodeo. A Mexican
rodeo cowboy is called a charro. For many North Texas
families, charreria is a proud expression of their Mexican-ness,
whether they've been Texas citizens for generations or
have arrived so recently that they don't yet speak English.
May 1999
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Mother
Love: by DMN Readers
When we asked readers to send us pictures of moms in action
for Mother's Day, we received about 500. They tell stories
about women giving birth, cooking holiday dinners, battling
sickness, playing sports, adopting babies and, most important,
loving their children. May 1999
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The
Dream and the Drive: by Juan Garcia
The
Dream and the Drive: II
The doors to the annual Dallas Lowrider Show won't open
for another 20 minutes; the competition has yet to begin.
But for Frank Requena, it's a victory that he's even here.
A painter's delay put the 40-year-old West Dallas man
through the hellish insanity of turning a body and frame
into a fully functional show car in just nine days. May
1999
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Sonnet
in a Bonnet: by Kim Ritzenthaler
"Hats reflect the character of you. This black one is
a representation of strength, nobility, of royalty. As
black folks would say, this is "flavor.' God is the author
of creation, and this is the symbol of the gift he has
passes on to us, the gift of creativity. We want . . .
our hats to bring life to other people." March 1999
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Hope
from Tragedy: by Ariane Kadoch
Lala had no defense against her mother, a former mental
patient whose lawyer says she was insane when she stabbed
and slashed her children last January in a living-room
attack. The dumbfounding assault, which reduced a police
sergeant to tears, nearly killed Lala and has left her
blind. November 1998
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New
Game Plan: by Joe Stefanchik
After his much-publicized and much-debated religious conversion
last summer, Deion Sanders says the Lord led him to reach
out to people. "He put it in my heart to reach three groups.
So I speak to high school kids, I come here to the nursing
home and then I have my Bible study. For me, this is wonderful,
a real blessing." October 1998
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State
Fair of Texas: by Allison V. Smith
Here are just a couple of things that keep Texans coming
back year after year to the fair: a father buying a young
child his first Fletcher's Corny Dog and angora goats
being petted by kids from the big city, who have never
seen anything more exotic than a raccoon raiding their
garbage cans. October 1998
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A
Boy Tackles Life: by Michael Mulvey
"I hate the word "special,' " Arthur says. "You're not
special because of your disability. I don't like being
known as "Arthur who has a disability.' " Sometimes, people
can't see beyond Arthur 's wheelchair, his parents say.
They can't see Arthur the Dallas Cowboys fan, the sensitive
poet, the Sony Playstation fanatic, the practical joker.
August 1998
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Christian
Boot Camp: by Beatriz Terrazas
They came thinking they'd spend a month swimming, sleeping
late, hanging out - all without parents nearby to nag.
They didn't know that by 5 a.m., their young hearts would
be racing from pre-dawn calisthenics and that their biceps
would bulk up from hitting the ground and doing 50 every
time they messed up. July 1998
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Lilies:
Flower of Hope: by Karen Stallwood
Lucile Shockley downplays her Easter lily garden. It's
not in bloom yet, she explains. It's really nothing fancy.
No birdbaths, no trellises. Just a rectangle of dirt by
the backyard fence. Each Easter she donates a single lily
in memory of her late husband, Paul. April 1998
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The
Loft Life: by Randy Eli Grothe
Five years ago, 250 people lived in downtown Dallas, most
of them in a single building. To everyone else, downtown
was terra incognita, to be explored only on weekends with
visiting relatives. Today, downtown is home to a growing
number of people. March 1998
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Life's
Work: by Michael Ainsworth
Transplant surgery, a field so amazing it seemed to be
science fiction just a generation ago, increasingly provides
desperate people a second chance at life. But despite
enormous technological advances, people form the heart
of organ transplantation. The process depends on coordinators,
surgeons and nurses and pilots and ambulance drivers.
March 1998
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My
Brother's Keeper: by Huy Nguyen
When evangelist Miguel Torres started My Brother's Keeper,
he and his wife slept in the office of the shelter to
save money. Local churches funded their work; the Torreses
received no salary. My Brother's Keeper tries to help
runaways and homeless youth and rehabilitate alcohol and
drug addicts. February 1998
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Christ
in Christmas: by Kim Ritzenthaler
In a Johnson County community of conservative Mennonite
families, Christmas is a day of family fellowship, marked
with a few songs and perhaps a reading of Luke's account
of Jesus' birth. The Mennonites call themselves a people
apart, and that is never truer than on Christmas Day.
December 1997
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Two
Worlds, One Heart: by Beatriz Terrazas
Sleeping wrapped in a blanket, Justin Ilolo (ee-lo-lo)
knew nothing of the threats, tears and confusion that
preceded his arrival. And the black-haired bundle knew
nothing of what lay ahead: that he was a flesh-and-blood
bridge between two families, two cultures from different
parts of the world. November 1997
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Thanksgiving's
Graces: by J.D. Talasek
Whatever your religion, whatever your beliefs, if you
sit down for a meal today, chances are somebody at the
table will utter words of thanks. The grace might be for
health, for strength, for daily bread, for the people
whose hands we touch as we pass the plates. November
1997
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The
Princess of Golden Acres: by Ariane Kadoch
The story of how Dana Whitman became the first - and only
- child resident of a nursing home is of a family's anguish.
But in the months she has lived at Golden Acres, there
has been an upside, too. Morale among both staff and residents
has been raised by the presence of a beautiful, doll-like
child. October 1997
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I
Am My Mind: by Judy Walgren
On his way to deliver a lecture in a Dallas psychiatrist
suffered a massive stroke to his brain stem, a bridge
at the base of his skull connecting the brain to his spinal
cord. He is now mute and paralyzed. But his mind is clear.
September 1997
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A
Changing Order: by Erich Schlegel
The priest ends the Mass with the command, "Go in peace,
to love and serve the Lord," and two questions seem to
float in the stillness: Who will serve, and for how much
longer? Like many other Catholic convents, a Grand Prairie
convent of sisters is home mostly to older sisters, many
retired, some ailing. September 1997
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