July 18, 2003

Offering a Leg Up Online

By SCOTT CARLSON

U. of Maryland program provides a boost to the working poor -- if they can handle it

Serena Cook had been through more hard knocks than most people before

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she took up her latest challenge -- becoming a college student.

She grew up in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore

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