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...propelled him to a spot on the USA Junior National team with current New York Yankees prospect Drew Henson at third and Felipe Lopez of the Cincinnati Reds. The arm carried him to USA Today Honorable Mention All-America honors along with kids with names like Albert Pujols and Adam Dunn...
...Adam and his friends were guerrillas--though the word wasn't commonly used until some 40 years later, when Spanish peasants harried Napoleon's army in the Peninsular War. Indeed, the Columbia Encyclopedia notes that guerrilla tactics have been called "the great contribution of the American Revolution to the development of warfare." In this early part of the conflict in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that...
...seventh grade, my children read April Morning, a coming-of-age novel by Howard Fast. It's the story of a boy, Adam Cooper, whose father is shot by the British on Lexington Common on April 19, 1775. In the chaos that follows, Adam joins a group of men who, in their everyday clothes, hiding behind walls and trees, mow down a column of Redcoats marching back from Concord...
...DIED. ADAM OSBORNE, 64, computer executive who in 1981 introduced the first portable PC; after a series of strokes; in Kodiakanal, India. With its 5-in. screen, his 24-lb. Osborne 1 elicited a frenzy of orders before manufacturing glitches derailed the machine. Osborne Computer declared bankruptcy...
Ironically, Lee went a perfect 23-0 in the round robin, only to lose to Ohio State’s Adam Compton 15-13 in the finals. Only three fencers took Lee to the final touch in the round robin portion of the tournament—Compton, Hagamen and Jakus...