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Saturday, June 23, 2007

 

Hope springs eternal for
cerebral palsy patients 

By Johanna M. Sampan

My eldest brother, JS, is a teacher for special children. Day after day he shares the classroom with them and treat them like any other ordinary kid in school. But of course, he treats them with more patience and understanding. He always tells me that teaching the kids bring him mixed emotions of joy, fulfillment and sometimes helplessness because he can’t be there for all of them at the same time as a teacher. He also shares that he has so much love and respect for the parents of these special children who continue to show selflessness and unconditional love and affection.

Unconditional love—this is the main reason why Richard and Izabela Koscienly, both physical therapists, flew thousands and thousands of miles just to find a cure for their beautiful daughter Kaya. She was born prematurely and diagnosed with cerebral palsy—a neurological disorder that causes physical immobilization on human growth and affects the person’s movement, speech, progress and posture.

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By Dr. Grace Carole
P. Beltran

FOR some, it is the promise of a youthful, ideal to perfect physical appearance that lures one to continuously search the elusive fountain of youth solution.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

OK, after these 11 columns about the causes of and probable reasons why men betray their women, what are the most likely sequences of betrayal?

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