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Until tryouts are over, the spikers will have to rely heavily on seniors Pascale Jean-Louis and Stephanie Salinas, junior Kelly Abraham and sophomore Nancy Prior, all of whom were members of last year's squad. In addition, Jodi Cassell--who took last year off from volleyball--has rejoined the team...
...Yakutat. If the lake overflows, the clear Situk could become a destructive torrent of silty water about 20 times its present volume, unfit for salmon and fishermen. "In another 500 to 1,000 years," says Mayo, "Hubbard Glacier could fill Yakutat Bay, as it did in about 1130." Susie Abraham, 85, a silver-haired elder of Yakutat's native Tlingit Indian tribe, is fatalistic. "This place where we sit," she says, "belongs to the great glacier...
...Abraham Lincoln sneaked into the Willard one dawn just a year later, his bodyguards having cloaked his movements from Illinois because of rumors of assassination. When the President-elect took his boots off in his second-story suite, he found he had forgotten his slippers. Henry Willard had some, but they were not big enough for Abe. Willard's grandfather, William Bradley, just then visiting, had huge feet and slippers to fit. He sent them over to Lincoln's rooms...
...product was invented in 1970 by Abraham Levy, an Israeli businessman who was inspired by his country's merciless sunshine. In 1982 Avi Ruimi and Avi Fattal, two immigrants from Israel, introduced the product in Los Angeles, calling it the Auto Shade. Sales began to take off last year, mostly in California. Now Ruimi and Fattal have lined up distributors in 25 states, concentrated, of course, in the Sunbelt...
...stage in George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...