7yo reaches Google contest final

By TigerBoy

“Google has chosen their finalists for their 5th annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition. One of the finalists is 7-year-old Dylan Hoffman from Wisconsin. (If you’re surprised by his age, note that last year’s winner was a 7-year-old too!) If Dylan wins first place this year, his doodle will be worth a whooping $80,000!” Full story: [...]

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Dutch boy makes Euro economy plan

By TigerBoy

London (CNN) — Jurre Hermans, the 11-year-old Dutch boy who entered the £250,000 ($400,000) Wolfson Economics Prize with a pizza-based plan for saving the eurozone, did so because he had an idea and the winnings sounded “very attractive,” he told CNN. Jurre received a €100 ($131) gift voucher and special mention when the prize shortlist [...]

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Young men are in crisis, Boy Scouts can help

By davidterry

Growing up has never been easy, but the challenges facing today’s young males seem particularly treacherous. Naturally fitted to seek adventure, friendship and accomplishment, teenage young men are easily lured into manipulative media that provides compelling but dangerous counterfeits for each. For example, rather than engaging a real world of adventure with actual flesh-and-blood friends, [...]

A boy’s mission to save the camel

By davidterry

Camels have been fabled ships of the desert for centuries but in Abu Dhabi they face a new threat from humans. Day trippers leave their litter in the sands which the camels mistake for food. Eating discarded tins and plastic bags leads to a slow and painful death for the camel but now a 15-year-old [...]

Teens who play sports feel significantly healthier ...

By davidterry

Playing team sports is good for teenagers’ mental as well as physical health, according to a study conducted by researchers from West Virginia University and published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life. “Our study demonstrates the benefits of youth sports participation on self-rated health and life satisfaction among young youth at a [...]

Two teenage boys set to join U-Dance Ensemble

By davidterry

Two students have been selected to join the U-Dance Ensemble, the first UK-wide youth dance company. Ben Wisken, 18, and Cameron Finnemore, 17, are among just eight young dancers in England chosen to join the prestigious group, led by choreographer Hofesh Schechter, who won the Critic’s Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography (modern) in [...]

14 yo escaped filipino captors ‎

By TigerBoy

A 14-year-old Filipino-American boy abducted in July by suspected Islamic militants in the Philippines is free, officials said. Kevin Lunsmann was reunited with his mother, the U.S. Embassy in Manila said Monday, without offering additional details. “It was a tough time. It was a tough five months,” Kevin’s father, Heiko, told CNN affiliate WSET, from [...]

Boys don’t dance … or do they?

By davidterry

Popularity of hip hop and television dance shows is bringing male dancers into the limelight   Denise Ryan The Vancouver Sun December 11, 2010 Danny Nielsen didn’t get teased when he was growing up in Calgary — even though he was usually dragging a pair of dancing shoes around in his backpack. “I was bigger [...]

Movie Trailer: The Odd Life of Timothy Green

By TigerBoy

Starring CJ Adams as Timothy Gree Official site: -http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/the-odd-life-of-timothy-green/- Trailer: -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giu8zZNbkgE-

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Movie Trailer: Hugo

By TigerBoy

New boy movie now in theatres : Hugo Starring Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley Official trailer: -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-kP-olcpM

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Ballet is for boys

By davidterry

As a little kid, Richard Zimich went to soccer practice with not just his sneakers, but ballet slippers. After the game, he couldn’t hang out – he would always say he had to go “cut the grass.” “I’m sure my teammates thought, ‘Wow, that guy is cutting the grass an awful lot,’ ” laughed Zimich, [...]

For male dancers ‘Billy Elliot’ can be more tru ...

By davidterry

The title character of Broadway musical”Billy Elliot”is a young British boy who takes ballet lessons in secret, fearful of what friends and family might think. The Broadway touring production of the show, with music by Elton John, opens Tuesday at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. Although the musical is set in the early 1980s, [...]

House fire displaces Birdsboro family

By davidterry

A fire damaged a ranch house in Birdsboro on Friday and temporarily displaced the occupants, according to Chief Christopher Bickings of the Birdsboro-Union Fire Department. No one was injured in the fire at 705 E. Fifth St., which was discovered shortly before 4 p.m. by two boys walking past, Bickings said. Tyler Byrnes, 17, and [...]

Man Utd signs 5yo

By TigerBoy

They say football is a man’s game but Charlie Jackson is proving there’s room for the boys after being spotted by Manchester United at the age of three. The football fan, from Denton, Greater Manchester, impressed Reds scouts with his control and movement and was earmarked as a future star. But it wasn’t until he [...]

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