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I learned long ago that shopping with teenagers requires me to patronize places I would otherwise avoid. The combination of loud, thumpy music, unreasonably priced clothing with manufactured holes in the knees and overly perky salespeople reminds me it is good to be a grown-up. Recently, however, owing to his incessant habit of rapid growth, my 15-year-old son needed new shoes. Thus, I found myself in the chain store Journeys, where one finds all manner of casual footwear, including styles even a mother can approve. The Journeys store at my mall is well-managed and well-staffed. The salespeople are truly some...

2/8/2006 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Meaghan Ababa is now resting comfortably at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles thanks to the medical personnel of the 59th Medical Wing. Her doctors say it is “a miracle” considering the arduous journey the 7-year-old Hawaiian girl just completed. The journey began at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu Feb. 3. Doctors there had placed Meaghan, whose heart was failing, on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, machine. The machine was doing all the work for Meaghan’s heart and lungs. The problem: Doctors at Kapiolani were...

To: Interested PartiesFrom: Bush-Cheney '04 Communications Date: 8/13/04Re: Journeys With John It's now been more than two weeks since John Kerry left the Democratic National Convention in Boston and set off on his "Sea to Shining Sea" tour. As advertised, Sen. Kerry has traveled more than 3,500 miles, across 22 states, meeting Americans on "main streets and family porches and in cities and towns." The end result? On a journey that has proved to be less Lewis and Clark and more Clark Griswold, John Kerry finds himself trailing President Bush 47% to 50% in the latest nationwide Gallup Poll of...