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Abby Sunderland, Teenage Solo Sailor: Where Is She Now?
By Max Strasser - AOL NewsAbby Sunderland was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on 25 of these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Richard Bouet, AFP / Getty Images Abby Sunderland has a book coming out in 2011. Abby Sunderland Made News in 2010 When She: Was rescued while attempting a solo sailing voyage around the world -- an audacious effort for a 16-year-old girl. The Full Story: Abby Sunderland's solo circumnavigation of the globe at the age ...
Teen Sailor Wants Another Round-the-World Bid
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 30) -- Abby Sunderland, the California teen who tried to become the youngest person to sail solo around the globe, says she would make another attempt despite the huge waves that broke her mast and stranded her in the Indian Ocean, where she feared she would never be found. Abby, who returned to California on Monday after being rescued earlier this month, recalled getting thrown around in the storm aboard her 40-foot sailboat, Wild Eyes. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In an interview on NBC's "Today" show, the 16-year-old said she was knocked ...
Teen Sailor Returns to California Home, Stays Quiet
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 29) -- The American 16-year-old whose failed attempt to sail solo around the world triggered a massive international rescue effort and criticism of her parents has arrived home in California. Abby Sunderland arrived at her parents' house in Thousand Oaks, adorned with welcome balloons, late Monday night. She returned in an unmarked black car and was escorted inside by an unidentified man. She didn't speak to the crowd of reporters outside, but her blog says she plans to address the media later today. Lionel Cironneau, AP Abby Sunderland, 16, leaves the Reunion island, a French ...
Teen Sailor Reunited With Brother on Dry Land
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 26) -- The California 16-year-old whose failed attempt to sail solo around the world triggered an international rescue mission and fierce criticism of her parents arrived back on dry land today and was reunited with her older brother, a fellow sailing adventurer. A French patrol boat brought Abby Sunderland ashore today on the French island of Reunion off the coast of east Africa. She was rescued June 12th by another French fishing boat 2,000 miles west of Australia, after her sailboat's mast snapped in a storm. Sunderland's 17-year-old brother Zac flew to Reunion to meet her, ...
Abby Sunderland and Other Free-Range Kids: An Endangered Species?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyHenry Rodgers has a tree swing in his backyard that hangs very close to another tree. In the middle of Arkansas' summer heat, he plays on it while other kids are inside watching movies or playing video games. He collects rocks and catches bugs, too. His recent addition to his insect aquarium: a fat lime-green horn worm. (But he confesses that he didn't find it; his dad did.) Henry, 7, doesn't play it safe. He doesn't mind dirt, sweat or even getting a scratch or two. Henry's childhood seems normal to me. I grew up a tomboy, playing baseball, popping wheelies and skateboarding in suburbia ...
On Children: Conceiving, Raising and Letting Go
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyA Food and Drug Administration panel approved a new post-coitus pregnancy-prevention medication Thursday that gives women as long as five days after sex to undo any ill-considered family-planning consequences. For all our confetti-throwing to celebrate the 50-year birthday of birth control pills recently, it strikes me that the new protocol called "Ella" will be a far less rigid and less physically intrusive way for a woman to avoid pregnancy. I do not, however, know how the new science of de-ova-ing one's body compares in impact to the half-century-old method of a 3-weeks-a-month ...
Teen Sailor Defends Her Parents From Critics
By not in system - AOL NewsPARIS (June 15) -- Yes, she's 16, but Abby Sunderland says she knew what she was doing when she tried to sail around the world alone, and was prepared when it all went wrong in a remote zone of the Indian Ocean. In an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Sunderland acknowledged that her adventure "can look pretty crazy," but she defended her parents against critics who say she never should have been allowed to attempt it. "Those people don't know me. And if they did, they wouldn't be criticizing my age," she said by phone from the remote Kerguelen Islands, near Antarctica, ...
Worst Sports Father of the Year: Laurence Sunderland
By Clay Travis - AOL NewsAs Father's Day nears, there may be worse fathers than Laurence Sunderland, the father of 16-year-old world sailing failure, Abby, but I haven't seen one so far this year. Even Tiger Woods, taking a break from sex rehab while writing his child support checks, is aghast over Sunderland's poor parenting decisions. Think that's bad, somewhere in the minimum security prison otherwise known as the Balloon Boy father's life, even Richard Heene, felonious father, is shaking his head in dismay. You'll recall that Keene famously staged his son's balloon flight back in January. Of course, Heene's son, ...
Opinion: Reality Show Talk Tarnishes Sunderland's Achievement
By Matt Mendelsohn - AOL News(June 15) -- There's a mountain bike race in Leadville, Colo., the nation's highest incorporated town. It's 100 miles of nonstop pain, starting at 10,000 feet above sea level and finishing, unbelievably, 3,000 feet higher. And what do the brave souls who compete in the Leadville 100 get for completing this epic feat of endurance? I'll give you a hint: It's not money, it's not fame and it's certainly not a reality-TV series. If you finish the Leadville race in under 12 hours, you get a belt buckle. Some might say, "A belt buckle?!?!" But this belt buckle signifies that you are one tough dude. ...
Mother: No Reality Show in the Works for Sunderlands
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 15) -- The mother of the California teenager rescued in the Indian Ocean during an attempt to sail solo around the world said a report that the family had signed a contract for a reality show was based on a misunderstanding. She said plans for the show were scrapped before her daughter began her journey in January, according to a news report. The New York Post reported Monday that Laurence Sunderland, a father of seven with an eighth on the way, was broke and signed a contract for a reality-TV show, "Adventures in Sunderland," weeks after his 16-year-old daughter Abby set sail on her ...
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