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The students found their publishing forum via the Times' "Newspaper in Education" program, and then asked for help during the American Magazine Conference in New York, a move that netted the printer, Donnelley, and paper supplier, Stora Enso.

"This was such a special request from kids who had been through so much. Clearly, it was the right thing to do," states Francis R. Costello, president of Magazine Publishing Services for Donnelley. "When these gifted students, with a powerful story to tell, asked for help in sharing their experience through the printed word, we were happy to do anything we could."