Word: bellingham
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Joseph Garcia, a researcher in Bellingham, Wash., who created the Sign with Your Baby system, told me that the process can begin with babies as young as seven months but normally kicks in--with Baby demonstrating a sign or two--at around nine months. One of the rewards of simple sign communication, he adds, is that if a baby has a variety of caregivers, they can all understand what the child is saying...
Both kids and parents say the lifestyle has its challenges. Eating out--at restaurants, friends' houses and school--can be tricky and sometimes encourages junk-food consumption or even abstaining from eating. Jeff Siegfried, a 13-year-old vegetarian from Bellingham, Wash., says his school-cafeteria offerings are so "pathetic," he often skips lunch. For kids of ranchers, such as Carina Fisher, 17, of Bakersville, Calif., the diet can be alienating. No longer a vegetarian, Fisher recalls unwittingly insulting family friends by attending barbecues and brandings with egg sandwiches in hand...
...been a 10-year wait for this overnight success. After moving as a teenager from Bellingham, Wash., to Los Angeles with her mom, Swank was a guest on the sitcoms Growing Pains and Evening Shade before playing the best friend in the original, 1992 movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1998, after a bad run of TV movies and short-lived series, she auditioned for the role that turned her career around. Director Kimberly Peirce tested "every butch lesbian and transsexual out there" for Brandon before watching a tape from Swank. "She was beautifully androgynous...