| New Orleans' fifth-graders envision future: Fixed houses, crime-free city, flying cars
NEW ORLEANS -- Since they're going to be the Class of 2015, we asked fifth-graders at the newly opened Langston Hughes Academy Charter School to tell us what their city will look like on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Their answers ran the gamut from hopeful to uncertain _ but all were in agreement on one thing. New Orleans does have a future. Here's a sampling: ___ "In 2015 New Orleans will look new. All of the flooded buildings will be rebuild. New Orleans will be bigger. They will have new schools and new parks. ... Many of the houses will be raised so the won't flood again." _Jozeff Lee, 10, who is still waiting to return to his New Orleans East home. ___ "New Orleans will look like they never had a storm.
Survey: Teens face stress at higher rate
Stressed out by your high-pressured job? Don't assume your kid is any less stressed out by school, especially if she's a she. Young people experience stress at a high rate, and females more than males, an extensive Associated Press/MTV survey shows. .
Travelers Get Ready for Holiday
AAA estimates 34.6 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday. That's almost the same number who traveled during the holiday last year. The Travel Industry Association says people are worried that prices for fuel, lodging and airfare are still too high. Of those who do leave home about 4 million will fly, 1.6 million will go by train, bus or other kind of transportation. By far most people will hit the highways AAA estimates 28.9 million travelers will drive. State police plan extra patrols with DWI road checks and enforcement details. "People in general when they're going away, they're anxious, they're in a hurry," said New York State Police Capt. Mike Cerretto. “Hopefully when we can have marked police presence out there, they'll see us out there and it'll knock them back to reality and they'll drive at the appropriate speed." AAA says hotel rates have gone up a little from last year- about 3 percent.
Rosa's death ended Tony's era
The restaurant was always called Tony's, but for 30 years, the face behind the counter, which watched the ravioli boil and shrimp sizzle and beamed at neighbors and their children and their children's children, was that of Rosa DePasquale. So when Rosa died of cancer at 83 in June, a neighborhood institution went with her, a time capsule of mid-century, Italian-American culture, shuttered forever behind her mint-green, padlocked grate. The building at 329 Sumner St. in which Rosa cooked and lived is now for sale, having passed in a head-spinning fashion from the estate of Rosa's deceased husband, Tony, to Ronald DePasquale (who also passed away unexpectedly in July) -- Tony's son from his first marriage -- to Tony's first wife, Teresa Catina, who, at 91, still styles hair just two doors away.
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