Vol. LXI, No. 15
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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(Photo by E.J. Greenblat)
PRESTO!: David Maiullo, a support specialist from the Rutgers Physics Department, gets his young audience's attention as he demonstrates the flammability of hydrogen at Friday's Children's Science Fair at the Princeton Public Library. |
All it took was some funding and a commitment from a Princeton community apparently ready to fully embrace the sport of skateboarding.
Princeton Borough and Township Monday approved the Princeton Public Library's $3.57 million operating budget request during a joint-municipal budget hearing on shared agencies, but concern regarding when the library's endowment monies would be used to offset capital expenses was, as it was in years past, a point of discussion.
It could happen to anyone. One day, 24-year-old Beth Livingston got into her car, strong-limbed and whole. Minutes later her broken body was thrown from her Isuzu Troope and she has lived with paralysis and adaptive technology ever since.