Word: 12th
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...team entered five members in three divisions. In division A, co-captains Cristian Taubman and Sarah Levin finished fourth, while sophomore Margaret Gill and Susan Bonney struggled, finishing 12th in division B. In the singlehanded division C, sophomore Sean Doyle finished second...
EVERYONE ISN'T DOING IT In a national survey of teenage drug use, PRIDE, an organization devoted to drug-abuse prevention, revealed last week that while drug use dropped 1.6% between September 1998 and June 1999, a quarter of America's sixth-to-12th-graders used drugs at least once during the past year. Fewer students than in previous years believe heroin and cocaine are "very harmful." But those whose parents talked to them "a lot" about the dangers of drugs were far less likely than other students to use them...
Forty students kicked off the semester this past week by attending the 12th annual Women's Leadership Conference, a six-day event examining women's lives and leadership at Harvard and beyond...
...Harvard officials say its recent efforts, including the 12th annual Women's Leadership Project and the Harvard College Women's Initiative, show an increased awareness of and response to female undergraduates...
...RIGHT Despite high-profile school shootings in places like Littleton, Colo., the good news is that overall teen violence, including homicide, is on the decline. A report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that from 1991 to '97, the number of 9th-to-12th-graders who packed a weapon fell from 26% to 18%; those involved in a fight and needing treat-ment by a doctor or nurse dipped from...