Jill Paton Walsh explores basic human concerns--love, death, and maturation--in novels that appeal to readers of all ages. In addition to the historical novels for which she is best known, she has written two realistic contemporary novels, two futuristic...

Author of over thirty books for young readers and a dozen titles for adults, Jill Paton Walsh is noted for her works which deal realistically with life, death, and maturation. While her novels vary widely in terms of genre and style, Judith Atkinson of T...

The more light a torch gives, the shorter it lasts....

Originally, a torch was a portable source of fire used as a source of light, usually a rod-shaped piece of wood with a rag soaked in pitch and/or some other flammable material wrapped around one end. Torches were often supported in sconces by brackets...

Today at approximately 10:05 a.m., Analicia Carpio, 13, will stand in the middle of Wilson Boulevard in Arlington and wait for her turn to carry the Olympic flame a little closer to Utah. Analicia is one of 11,500 people chosen to carry the...

Carrying a torch Local residents overcome hurdles for their Olympic moment By MARY JO DIEM Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, January 6, 2002 Two-tenths of a mile isn't far. Two, three blocks tops. An average person could run...

Proposals to take the torch relay through Taiwan and Tibet for the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be evaluated this month by the IOC, a run that would take the race through politically charged territory.Beijing organizers will present the proposed route to the International Olympic Committee...

Mia Farrow joined genocide survivors in a torch-lighting ceremony Wednesday at a Rwandan school where thousands died in a 100-day frenzy of killings in 1994.The 62-year-old actress, whose screen credits include "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo," is leading an Olympic-style torch relay...