Superior High School student Ari Robillard, second from left, reacts as her teammates, Taylor Schultz, left, and Paige B. Johnson balance a weighted bucket on their toothpick bridge at the American ...

These are arcs of toothpick triumph. At Manos House, a Lancaster city drug- and alcohol-treatment facility for teenage boys, residents bridge an uncertain past for a more positive future - even with ...

For 20 years, Bruce Pap has built bridges with his young students as they watched bridges made of toothpicks collapse. Then, 11 months ago, a real bridge collapsed. And suddenly, today's "bridge ...