Playing for keeps

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A brief review on the efforts behind the KIPP Academy String and Rhythm, composed of African American and Latino kids from a poor background, which holds America's outstanding youth orchestras, four national tours, and a 2002 concert at the most renowned Carnegie Hall is presented. Charlie Randall, the orchestra's founder and music director believes in making kids feel successful through music.

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Saving saylor

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Jason York helped a little girl Saylor Kirkpatrick to save her life by donating his liver to the girl who lay motionless, hooked to a mass of tubes and wires in a Delaware hospital. For the Kirkpatricks, the York and their girls have become "instant family".

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Saving Michael Bowen

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Shelley Bowen's transformation from a hapless mom to an impassioned advocate is traced. Shelley Bowen's struggle to save the life of her son Michael, a patient of Barth syndrome, is elaborated.

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