Nicole Matisse is 19 years old and by the time she is 20 she would have already completed her bachelor's. Although it is not uncommon to earn a graduation degree at that age, it is the time period - just one year - that Matisse would need to achieve it. After entering as a junior in the University of Michigan last fall with 19 credits in her hand, Matisse earned 27 more by winter and is set to take 34 more by summer.

A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl won $25,000 after typing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from "Mary Poppins" on her cell phone in less time than 200 other competitors in a text-messaging competition. Morgan Pozgar typed the Disney classic's "biggest word I ever heard" in only 15 seconds, beating out the former national text-messaging champ, 21-year-old Eli Tirosh of Los Angeles. Morgan, who estimated she sends more than 8,000 text messages every month, described her phone as "pretty worn in," according to UPI.

Upset with her daughter's athletic performance, a 42-year-old Lincoln mom not only slapped her teenager but also left her on Interstate 80 on Saturday. Terrell Mackey now faces a charges of child abuse and neglect for leaving her 15-year-old daughter alone. It started when Mackey, who was disappointed by her daughter's game, asked her daughter to repeat sentences to help her game. However, when the girl failed to repeat the phrase flawlessly, Mackey slapped her in the head.

A 16-year-old high school student was ejected from a Continental Airlines flight because she was coughing. Rachel Collier's mother, who was eagerly awaiting her daughter's return in Hawaii, was infuriated when she got a call from one of the trip supervisors telling her that Rachel was not allowed to travel from New York because she was coughing. Stephanie Collier, Rachel's mom thought that it was some kind of joke as April Fools Day is round the corner, but was shocked to discover the truth. Rachel, who was returning home to Honolulu after a class trip to Washington, D. C. , and New York boarded the nonstop flight to Hawaii with 40 classmates and two teachers.

The 15-year-old Florida girl whose continuous hiccups got her international attention seems to be in trouble again. Jennifer Mee, who started hiccupping on Jan. 23 close to 50 times a minute and continued through for more than a month, began hiccupping again Thursday morning after a nose bleed that occurred during her second day back at school. "I'm at my wit's end," the girl's mother, Rachel Robidoux, told the St. Petersburg Times.