Word: 12th
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...kids today is getting to be a futile exercise. Using less final terms like "postpone" or "delay" helps draw some kids in, but semantics often isn't the problem. In a Florida survey, the state found that 75% of kids had experienced sexual intercourse by the time they reached 12th grade, with some 20% of the kids having had six or more sexual partners. Rick Colonno, father of a 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter in Arvada, Colo., views sex ed in schools as a necessary evil to fill the void that exists in many homes. Still...
...team finished 12th out of 18 at the Eastern Championships held at Middlebury February 27 and 28, mediocre at a glance, but an admirable achievement considering many of the members did not take us competitive skiing until college...
...seeding meeting for the NCAA draw, Fish was asked to appraise his team's chances. Answering honestly, Fish said that the elder Blake was questionable to play and that even if he did play, he would be less than 100 percent. There went the 12th seed and there went the match with Illinois--a far lesser opponent than Georgia...
...year, every thing went perfect for us except Thomas getting hurt," Fish said. "As a regional representative you have to keep some credibility and pretending that Thomas is perfect is not the way we do things. If Thomas had not gotten hurt, we would have been the 12th seed and it would have been a whole different story...
...first part of competition is a round-robin tournament, and the top two finishers in each of two six-team pools advances to the semifinals. Harvard, playing in Pool A, posted a 17-14 victory over ninth-seeded Rice in the second round, and beat 12th-seeded Iowa, 15-10, in the fifth round...