Late in the summer ten kids with advanced neuroblastoma, one of the deadliest childhood cancers, began undergoing a radical new gene therapy with a breathtaking goal--to fight the disease not by deploying often inadequate chemotherapy and radiation but by jiggering the immune system to attack tumors it otherwise ignores.
When I was a camp counselor one summer, the kids made a list of their favorites.
Last summer, ING Direct started a summer camp for kids that teaches earning, spending and saving lessons to about 1, 500 students in the Wilmington, Del.
Junior Achievement, a nonprofit that educates students about the economy, runs a nationwide BizTown summer camp where kids work with teachers and volunteers to create a simulated economy.
In summer, neighborhood kids were probably all over this structure.
Not all children have the same access to out of school activities during the summer holidays and kids from more advantaged backgrounds are the ones who are most likely to get to go to these activities.
So you guys are going to be the first example this summer of really encouraging kids to move.
Wooten took this philosophy and created summer camps to get kids excited about music in a more natural way.
"If we had 150 kids in the summer camps, that probably doesn't translate into 150 people working at FedEx in eight years, " he acknowledges.
An afterschool and summer education program for poor kids, the group demonstrated that its students had a seven-month head start in reading, writing and math over their peers.
It was (and still is) a beautiful, very rustic place where kids spend the summer living in tents, and where I felt miserably isolated from the world I knew.
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Only 16 percent of those kids are getting summer feeding because some communities have not looked for alternative sites, Boys and Girls Club, Department of Parks and Recreation, that you would need when the schools are closed.
She cooked for hundreds of kids at an upstate summer camp and hundreds of brides in the Hamptons.
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With so many kids off for the summer they should have been like their competitors, coming out with a few games a week.
Every summer I drive the wife and kids from our home in Virginia to a house in Plymouth, Massachusetts that has been owned by my family since the 1920s.
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But there's a summer camp in New Orleans that takes kids into libraries and cemeteries.
In May, the school raised money for a roof over its sumo ring, enabling kids to practice during the summer rains.
It was converted into the biggest water park in Asia last summer, complete with rides for the kids and a spa for the grown-ups.
Asking which countries dominated the IPO scene in the second quarter is probably like asking which theme park American kids prefer going to this summer.
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We are in the process, after two years of preparation, of developing a security camp for kids that will be tested next summer.
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Families with school-age kids often go away over the summer, and retired folks from the north like to head for warmer climes when the weather gets cold.
He and his wife send their kids to private school and a costly summer camp.
During the summer, a lot of times this is what kids are doing.
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For most of us, longer summer days may mean that dinnertime, maybe the kids' bedtime, slip to a later hour.
The last time we were here in the summer, there were so many people around the kids could barely see Old Faithful.
The kids, who were part of his summer youth program, were abused by the very adult who was supposed to be nurturing, supporting and protecting them.
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My kids loved the movie--this summer's remake starring Jackie Chan--so I thought I'd swipe the title for this column and appear cool in their little eyes.
Some analysts were attributing part of the unexpected drop-off to one-time factors such as unusually hot summer weather, which has left many parents and kids less than eager to shop for clothes with legs and long sleeves.
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Three cheers for Professor John Zimmerman, who's finally doing some research to benefit Joe Public, and who has invented a device that lets parents sleep in late and put the kids to bed early on those long summer days.
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