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Inner-city 'Turner Twelve' visit Yellowstone
Peering through a spotting scope at a gray wolf lying under a tree in the Lamar Valley, Kwanetta Davis smiled.
"Awesome," the 17-year-old Dallas girl said.
Davis and nine other Dallas high school seniors went wolf watching Tuesday as part of a five-day trip here to learn about the wilderness - a rarity in their inner-city lives.
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Teens mix business creativity with web technology at UT Dallas summer camp
From as far north as McKinney and as far south as Cedar Hill, participants also came from Frisco, Richardson and Dallas. The Turner Twelve Organization, a nonprofit group that works to create first-generation college graduates, sent the largest contingent, a dozen Class of 2011 members, who are all enrolled at Lincoln High School in South Dallas.
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