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...going to pass out song sheets, and the [football] coach is going to be there," Cole said. "It's going to be a real big morale booster...
...evaluated DARE in 1985. "It was a provocative conclusion not warranted by the study." R.T.I., however, stands by its conclusions, adding that it looked at fifth- and sixth-graders exactly because that has been DARE's target group. Said R.T.I. researcher Susan Ennett: "Unless there's some sort of booster session that reinforces the original curriculum, the effects of most drug-use-prevention programs decay rather than increase with time." Ray, 18, who came through the DARE program in Los Angeles, is a good case in point. He smokes pot. "Mostly everyone I know who was in DARE back with...
...couple of months before his death, Kennedy went to Cape Canaveral to view the first stage of the giant Saturn rocket. Even as his scientists argued off to the side about how to land men on the moon, the President for a moment stood alone beneath the huge booster casing, rocked back on his heels and stared up. For those seconds, I could see he was beyond the earth, above the quibbling technicians. He was riding with history. I think he knew it was going to work...
...definitely an improvement," Bates said after the change was announced last fall. "Besides the actual funding, you know, the athletes have always been working hard, and for them to get this is just a real confidence booster...
Another morale booster came at the end of theregular season. Harvard had hit a bit of a rut andlooked like it would drop its final to 10th-placeSt. Lawrence...