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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just an amazing athlete," women's ice hockey Tri-Captain Brita Lind says. "The biggest thing that sets Char apart is that she almost has a sixth sense, an ability to read and understand the game. It's this sense that allows her to use her athletic ability to its fullest potential...
...Poets' Theater has completed its revival--after remaining dormant for almost 20 years--by establishing an office at the Center for Literary Studies...
...More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...
...nervous." Rancher Gilbert Schmeidler, in Ellis County, Kans., is one of them. Day and night he looks for damp, heavy clouds. Mostly he sees bright moon and sun. "It is the dryest I can remember," he says. He has been there 58 years. Then there are the ominous, almost eerie, changes in the weather. One night three weeks ago, he was in shirt-sleeves, tending his Herefords. Within 60 hours the temperature fell from 86 degrees F to -13 degrees F, an unheard of plunge of 99 degrees. Schmeidler coped. Two calves were born in the middle of a freezing...
...Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), which pervades Boston and most American urban areas, is a formidable creature. It has gnawing teeth and jaw muscles that bite with the force of 12 tons per inch -- on a par with a shark. It will eat almost anything, and has been known to attack human babies. Some of the Boston rats have lived their entire lives underground, and no one knows how they will behave when exposed to the cultural opportunities of aboveground Boston...