International Chat: SUPPORT GROUP FOR DOWNS SYNDROME ON-LINE
Parents of a child with Down syndrome, they struggled alone. Parents of three other children, they were unable to leave the house to join a support group.So they opened their own portal to the world - through cyberspace. They created an on-line support group that has ended their own isolation, and that of hundreds of other families who grapple with Down syndrome. "We can sit in our homes," Cindy Casten said. "We can wear our pajamas. We can feed the kids...
International Chat: Love at first byte for couple who clicked
It was love at first byte for internet romantics John Owen and Kimberley Cleland when they logged on to an international chat room.When she finally flew into the UK from the US, two years after they first met on the web, the attraction was confirmed.Grandfather John, of Buckswood Drive, Gossops Green, Crawley, said: "When we first met we looked into each other's eyes and just melted into each other. We realised what we had felt from 8, 000 miles away was just as...
International Chat: STUDENTS PROBE FOREIGN CULTURE AND COMPUTERS
Foreign language students from Cocalico, Conestoga Valley, Elizabethtown, Solanco and Warwick school districts will be immersed in culture Friday at Lebanon Valley College.They will be among over 700 students from 27 schools focusing on the theme, "Unity in Cyberspace." Discussions will be in French, German and Spanish. Events will begin with a welcome by president David Pollick and coordinator Adrienne Donato, a sophomore elementary education major, at 9 a.m. in...
International Chat: Bringing the New Year's Eve party online
Shelley Covalcine doesn't like to go out drinking on New Year's Eve, so she'll celebrate with friends at home. Well . . . she'll be at home. Her friends will be scattered across the USA. They'll toast the new year via computers connected to the online service ImagiNation Network."Basically, my friends are online," says Covalcine, 31, a mother of two in Tulare, Calif. "This is my social...
International Chat: Love at first byte for couple who clicked
It was love at first byte for internet romantics John Owen and Kimberley Cleland when they logged on to an international chat room.When she finally flew into the UK from the US, two years after they first met on the web, the attraction was confirmed.Grandfather John, of Buckswood Drive, Gossops Green, Crawley, said: "When we first met we looked into each other's eyes and just melted into each other. We realised what we had felt from 8, 000 miles away was just as...