Entertainment

J.Lo performs at elem. school

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 10:38 AM

  
NEW YORK -- Students at a Staten Island, New York, elementary school for autistic children sure like the way Jennifer Lopez moves.
Teacher Kathy Amati and a paraprofessional showed the video for Lopez's "Let's Get Loud" to the students at P.S. 37. The children liked it so much, they wanted to watch it every day.
They learned the lyrics and the dance moves from the video.
With their teacher's encouragement, they wrote to Lopez, hoping for pictures or an autograph. Instead, she asked to come to their graduation.
 
On Tuesday, the singer-actress performed "Let's Get Loud" for a group of eight 10- and 11-year-olds at their graduation ceremony.

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National/World

Missing women rescued from national park

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 8:52 PM
  
ANCHORAGE, AK -- Two women missing for days in Denali National Park have been found and returned to park headquarters.
Park spokeswoman Kris Fister says the women were found Wednesday afternoon outside the park's boundaries on the northern side.
A helicopter picked up the two shortly before 5 p.m., about an hour after the mother of one of the women received a second phone call from her daughter.
The pair, 23-year-old Erica Nelson of Las Vegas and 25-year-old Abby Flantz of Gaylord, Minn., were taken to park headquarters, where they were united with family members.
The two women embarked on an overnight hike last Thursday. A massive search began for them Saturday.
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