Shani and Chad Walter lost one of their twin baby boys. Thanks to ABC's reality show "Houston Medical," thousands of Americans got to witness their pain. Audiences loved it. The Walters tell Houston Press staff writer Jennifer Mathieu they feel taken advantage of and exploited by the production company and a hospital eager for national publicity.
The St. Louis Table Tennis Club is as strong as it's been in 20 years, boasting a still-active granddaddy who had his mug spread across a Wheaties box in 1936. Up Interstate 55, a fledgling movement financed by Chicago millionaire Robert Blackwell, Jr. is afoot -- squarely aimed at making the heartland a veritable China West for U.S. table tennis, which, some believe, is a Tiger Woods away from rubbing shoulders with more popular U.S. sports. Mike Seely of the Riverfront Times looks at this pingpong phenom.
Few parents are aware of the kinds of choices many teens must now make as a regular part of early courtship, or that oral sex is now an issue for boys and girls barely in their teens. LEO sent a trio of interns, all recent local high school graduates, into the streets of Louisville to talk to teenagers, parents, counselors, doctors and others about sexuality in middle school. Joanna Richards, Andrew Tangel and Nicole Leist spent months researching this story, and LEO editors "eventually had to pry it from their hands because they just kept digging and digging for more information," says an editor's note.
