"Girls can do anything boys can do." Visit any playground in the United States, and you are almost guaranteed to hear this phrase being shouted by a handful of girls. Times have changed from when the only sport girls could participate in was croquet. Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 requires girls and boys to have equal opportunities to participate in sports. But while the play

When Camp Awareness was founded in 1998, autism was not nearly as well-known as it is today. "When my son was diagnosed, 1 in 10,000 (births) were the numbers," according to Sue Hansen, camp founder and director. Earlier that year, Hansen spent a frustrating few days at Cub Scout camp with son Sean, then 9, whose behavior was a source of bewilderment to the other boys and parents. "I spent my whol