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The first-graders in Michelle Kroch’s and Terrie Cecil’s class at Luther W. Machen Elementary School filed in one by one, with wide grins and excited eyes, ready to start the lesson. Staff Sgt.

Last month, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a national campaign against childhood obesity with a simple title: "Let's Move."

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This yummy lip balm will keep your lips from getting chapped during these last few days of winter, but did you know that you can also use it on your eyelids? Beauty expert Gretta Monahan recommends sliding a touch of it over each lid and then applying your usual eye shadow. The look will be the same - but last much longer.

Regina Malveaux is the new leader of the organization that works to eliminate racism and empower women.

Mission of YWCA

The Caldecott Medal winner

The Lion and the Mouse written and illustrated

by Jerry Pinkney

Little, Brown and Company Books, 2009.

Ingredients:

Snowboarder Shaun White - a blue, 4-inch version - rounded the bottom of a paper halfpipe to chants of "Shaun White! USA!"

But as quickly as his medal run started, he found his clay self laid flat, and Nancy Laria's fourth-grade class at Centerville Elementary convulsed in laughter.

"The best part of snowboarding? The wipeouts!" said Joshua Villa, 9.