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Avigail Eshet is a spirited eight-year-old that Finley helps care for in her spare time. However, this is not your average babysitting job—Avigail was born with severe familial dysautonomia and requires constant supervision to prevent a medical crisis...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Helps Kid, Finds New Home | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...people whose minds are poisoned by the town's water supply - wasn't quite so trailblazing. It built on that potent science-fiction trope, the takeover of personality by an alien entity, that dates back to Philip K. Dick's 1954 story "The Father-Thing," in which an eight-year-old suspects that his father's not quite right and finds a menacing replicant in the garage. A year later, Jack Finney fleshed out the premise in his novel The Body Snatchers, the source for the 1956 Invasion of... movie version and its three remakes. Alex Garland's script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crazies Review: Don't Drink the Water | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...started to play hockey as an eight-year-old in Connecticut, after spending time as a figure skater and soccer player. She captained her high school hockey team at Choate Rosemary Hall until she was asked to join the national team as a senior...

Author: By Juliana L. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Julie Chu ’07: U.S. Ice Hockey Olympic Medallist | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Twice last year he told panels investigating the violence that shook Kenya after a rigged vote in 2007 how leaders of his own Kalenjin tribe had whipped up ethnic tension, and paid boys to kill people and torch homes. His testimony helped prove that the violence was a well-organized political power play rather than some paroxysm of tribal rage. But now, like many others who testified alongside him, Victor (not his real name) gets text messages threatening him with death. He can't find work, other Kalenjin shun him, and strange men attacked his eight-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Whistleblowers Face Growing Intimidation | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

...honor practitioners of unconventional scientific research, also spotlighted another kind of unusual star this past Thursday in Sanders Theater. Besides featuring a group of scientists who discovered a method to create a diamond out of tequila, the honor of cutest participant in the ceremony undoubtedly goes to eight-year-old Isabel Kadel-Garcia, known for the evening as "Miss Sweetie...

Author: By ABIGAIL B. LIND, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sweetly Giving Kanye a Run for His Money | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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