By Will Weissert HAVANA -- Laura Garcia doesn't have a car and the change in her pocket won't cover a 15-cent bus fare. But standing by a crumbling overpass, sweating in her shorts, sunglasses and skimpy top, the 18- year-old says a free ride is only an outstretched thumb away.

By Will Weissert Associated Press HAVANA - Laura Garcia doesn't have a car, and the change in her pocket won't cover a 15-cent bus fare. But standing by a crumbling overpass, sweating in her shorts, sunglasses and skimpy top, the 18- year-old says a free ride is only an outstretched thumb away.

By Sherri Drake drake@commercialappealcom Rosalyn Nolen told her fifth-graders a story about a woman's run- in with a dog on the street and asked the students to draw the pictures they saw in their minds.