By ANYA SOSTEK, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Kids, critics crowd around Fred Rogers statue
PITTSBURGH - Amy Mee wasn't standing in front of the new Fred Rogers statue for long before she was interrupted by her 6-year-old daughter, Sarah.
"Take a picture of me sitting on his lap," said Sarah, bouncing with excitement. "I can fit there."
Hope has a major downside, new study finds
A spoonful of hope might not be the best medicine, according to a new study that asserts that optimism can actually be harmful to mental health.
Realizing a pipe dream
It's not unusual for young boys to be spellbound by pirates.
But when Nick Hudson would watch the movie version of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped" as a child, it wasn't for the swordplay or the adventure on the high seas. Rather, he was completely captivated by a bagpipe duel.
In just four years, YouTube has captured world's eye
Was there life before YouTube?
Why yes, and we lived it only four years ago. But given the events of the past week, when YouTube's digital fingerprints were all over the news, it's hard to imagine.
Loss of smell brings challenges to eating -- and work
A nose is a nose is a nose.
Until it's not working anymore.
For David Agostino of South Fayette, Penn., outside Pittsburgh, a 2004 motorcycle accident cost him not only his sense of smell but his job.
Taking a harsh look at Obama's use of 'look'
Pre-empt "American Idol" enough times and Americans will start to critique your vocal performances.
That's the message that President Obama is getting recently, as he draws comic heat for his liberal use of the word "look" in his televised news conference last Tuesday.
Schools include handwork in curriculum
Melanie Pickens picks up a coaster-sized circle of deep purple yarn, inspecting it to see if it will lie flat against a table.
"This is too lumpy," 9-year-old Melanie told her teacher, Roberta Konefal-Shaer, of the crocheted disc that will someday become a hat. "What do you think I should do now? Do you think I should do a double stitch?"
Pennsylvania students speak with astronaut
As she sat onstage at a small desk in her school cafeteria Tuesday, 9-year-old Erica Fitzgerald struggled to control her nerves.
Hundreds of her classmates at South Park Elementary School in Pittsburgh were watching her. She was worried about a basketball game later that day. And she was about to talk, live, to an astronaut currently orbiting Earth in the International Space Station.
Student ensures econ is no longer the 'dismal science'
PITTSBURGH -- Entering his senior year at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, Seth Weidman felt there was demand for an Advanced Placement economics class.So he decided to supply one.
College women expect to earn less than males
Despite their greater numbers and better academic success in college, women about to graduate and enter the workforce expect to make less money than males.
