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| Bucs give kids holiday shopping spree - msnbc.com Posted: 11 Dec 2010 08:39 AM PST TAMPA — Christmas came two weeks early for 200 children who got the chance today to buy toys, clothes, anything they wanted â€" and all on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' dime. The Glazer Family Foundation hosted its annual Holiday Shopping Spree at Target on West Waters Avenue. Youngsters from The Children's Home, The Children's Home Society of Florida, Eckerd Youth Alternatives and the Police Athletic League of Tampa were invited to spend $75 each to help make their Christmas a bit happier. Shayla Bennett shopped with her niece and nephew, who snatched up toys, clothes and shoes. The event, she said, helped ease the burden of Christmas during what has been a difficult year. She's can't work now because of health issues. "It helps out a big bunch, a lot," she said. "Some the stuff, I wasn't able to get." The foundation has hosted the event since 2000. More than 50 volunteers helped this year, including cheerleaders and team mascot Captain Fear. The event helps Bucs players and coaches, who are busy this time of the year on the field, reach out to the neediest members of the community, said Miray Holmes, the team's community relations director. Particularly heartwarming, she said, was the generosity the children showed: Many used the opportunity to shop for others. "They have really giving spirits," she said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php | |
| Kids who are sick have fewer friends than they think, study finds - Chicago Tribune Posted: 10 Dec 2010 01:12 PM PST
la-heb-sick-kids-have-fewer-friends-20101210 Teenagers coping with chronic health problems like asthma or obesity already have it tough. But a new study says they face another obstacle as well: making friends. Researchers have long known that people who have more friends tend to be healthier. Arizona State University sociologist Steven Haas wondered if the reverse was true as well. Haas and his research partners found that teenagers were less likely to say they are friends with a fellow student if he or she is sick. That finding was based on surveys administered to 2,060 classmates as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, also known as Add Health. However, teens who were sick listed just as many friends in the Add Health survey as teens who were healthy. Apparently, they just didn't realize that their friendships – and overall social networks – were weaker than those of other kids, the researchers explained in a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. "Adolescents in poor health form smaller local networks and occupy less central global positions than their healthy peers," they reported. In other words, they are less central players in their social networks. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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