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    Kids Helping Kids Across Borders

    This is very nice news. Kids helping out other kids, and adults going out of their way to help, too. March is graduation month for students across Japan, and each spring Minori Yamaki teaches traditional songs and dances to her students at a Japanese preschool in northwest suburban Niles. The lyrics express gratitude to friends and teachers and bid farewell to their school, especially poignant themes for this year’s graduates in the wake of the earthquake that rocked northeastern Japan on March 11. On Sunday, Yamaki’s students, ages 3 to 6, expressed thanks to hundreds of people who donated money…

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    Weekly Tweets 2011-03-20

    In Southern Illinois. 20 degrees warmer than at home, not wearing coats and it's early spring! GREEN THINGS! http://moby.to/pwbf6u # Yesterday's breakfast: Worried eggs… are worried. http://moby.to/7a3a4v # Ok yes, mostly dirt, but GREEN THINGS GROWING! http://moby.to/osawko # RT @mashable "Verizon iPhones Fell Back an Hour Instead of Springing Ahead – http://on.mash.to/ehOR9I" #YASRWSWATT # That's Yet Another Surprising Reason We're Still With AT&T (with the iPhone). #YASRWSWATT # On the road headed to Champaign for lunch with our nephew Josh. @fallingrock 's dad has 2 bleeping GPS units plus radar on. #fb # I checked in at Courier Cafe (111…