The mission began inside a black limousine. Leather seats, high-tech lighting, a Bose speaker system. Below a shelf of glass goblets — “Is that a bar?”— Kathy Harris discovered a lift-off compartment with iced-down soft drinks, including Dr. Pepper, her sonʼs favorite. “Tommy, do you want some?ʼ she asked her 13-year-old. He nodded, almost laughing. […]
A little boy wants to see the ocean, before he can no longer see Tadan Foss is a boy made for the beach. Like the ocean, his 4-year-old smile is big and wide, beautiful and bountiful. Like surfer dudes, he likes his locks long and refuses haircuts. He is like numerous children you have seen
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A little boy wants to see the ocean, before he can no longer see
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A brilliant young girl helps inspire a new generation Seated at the head table in the Kauffman Foundation’s conference center, 17-year-old Hope Corwin finally understood her Christmas gift. There she was, one of 209 high school girls at the Hope Summit, listening to superstar scientists, mathematicians, engineers and entrepreneurs. All the speakers were women. Women
Top chefs prepare meal for a young foodie weathering a lifetime of illness They wanted to create a magical meal he and his family would remember. On Christmas Eve, four of Kansas City’s finest chefs gathered in a secret underground Elf Testing Kitchen in the Crossroads. It was a special Christmas present for 20-year-old foodie
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All a nine-year-old boy suffering from cancer wanted for Christmas was snow When the chemo started and nurses told 9-year-old Mason Kempf to think of something happy, he thought about snow. Even though the outside breezes were soft and warm and the tree’s leaves green as he lay this summer in the hospital bed at
A girl who is passionate about the law sees it from a unique perspective Three things the Parkville teenager noticed at the U.S. Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor loves to drink coffee. Keeps two silver Thermoses at her elbow. She and the other justices are not stoic, godlike figures. They are real people who rock their
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Two inseparable girls find each other on Christmas Eve Just a day after Thanksgiving and they already were back at Children’s Mercy Hospital. When she heard the doctors tell them that her 13-year-old daughter would probably have to spend Christmas there, too, Stephanie Parker sighed. This would be Shaneil’s second Christmas in the hospital since
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Kirk and Barbara Johnson were never ones to take friends for granted, so they weren’t surprised when friends rallied round following Kirk’s diagnosis of colon cancer. Kirk was just 41 years old in 2006. He had a successful remodeling business, and he and Barbara were active in the lives of their four children and other
A country boy living in the city needs the right kind of wheels Why are there Elves at Christmas? “Because the whole world is broken when someone close to you has cancer,” said Kim, a former recipient-turned member of the anonymous organization known as The Elves of Christmas Present. “It really makes you understand that
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