PHOTOS: Marvel Comics Create Superhero For Hearing-Impaired Boy

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 PHOTOS: Marvel Comics Create Superhero For Hearing-Impaired Boy Anthony Smith, a 4-year-old hearing-impaired New Hampshire boy, was confident superheroes didn't wear hearing aids. So when his mother, Christina D'Allesandro, asked him to put in his "blue ear" one day, he put up a fight. Flummoxed by her son's reaction, D'Allesandro emailed Marvel Comics to see if there were any superheroes who might be able to help, WCVB reports. Read the rest of the story on The Huffington Post. TWINTUITION: Man's 'Sixth Sense' Saves Twin From Brain Tumor WATCH: School Vice Principal Gets Awesome Surprise Flash Mob Puppies Found In Suitcase Get New Home WATCH: Father And Sons Graduate TOGETHER! Teen's AMAZING Sacrifice For Sick Toddler BLOG POSTS Matthew David Hopkins: Memorial Day Celebrations: 4 Tips for the Perfect Soirée Want to throw the party of the season, but feel fresh out of ideas? With Memorial Day this weekend and many more reasons to celebrate this summer, try my "perfectly imperfect" approach to entertaining and your guests will remember your celebration for years to come. Gregg McBride: What Excuses Might We Be Using to Keep Ourselves From Crossing Our Own Finish Lines? Sixteen days after this year's London Marathon ended, a final entrant crossed the finish line. Claire Lomas, who is paralyzed from the chest down, finished the marathon with a little help from her "robotic" legs -- along with a very healthy dose of willpower and sheer determination. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush: "Whom Shall I Fear?" The Incomparable Testimony Of Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Congressman John Lewis is the last living leader of the civil rights movement. I spoke with him about his new book and the role that faith, nonviolence and reconciliation played in the civil rights movement. Madeleine M. Kunin: Spring Has Returned to Vermont We learned in kindergarten that by mixing blue and yellow, we create the color green. But which artist played with those paints so happily and endlessly to give us this almost infinite palette of greens? Randy Turner: Joplin Tornado Teaches True Meaning of School It was just a building that was destroyed, one that had packed many memories into its two years, but just a building. The circumstances that brought us together were horrific, but what a wonderful school year.

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