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...taking the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories and appearing in two Pro Bowls. A fiercely dedicated athlete, White proved his mettle in 1975 when he emerged from a serious bout of pneumonia to help his team defeat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX. As Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said in a statement, "Dwight White was one of the greatest players to ever wear a Steelers uniform...
They started with pipes and air conditioners. Then they came for Dan. "They literally cut him off at the knees," says Judy Moore, vice president of the neighborhood association in Los Angeles' historic Carthay Circle. Dan is a 7-ft. (2 m) bronze statue of a gold miner that stood in a Los Angeles park for 84 years, holding his sifting pan like a deep-dish pizza. Appraisers say he's worth $125,000. In February, thieves sliced Dan in two and took him to a scrap yard to be melted down for $900. Why did a couple of crooks...
...factories in which it discovered child labor. Two years ago, it revised that policy. Now, if children are found in factories producing Gap clothes, the firm asks factory managers to remove them and find them schooling, for which Gap sometimes pays. The firm's new thinking, says Dan Henkle, Gap's senior vice-president for social responsibility, is not simply about monitoring, but about collaborating with factory staff so that they too feel responsible for conditions on the factory floor. It's messier, costlier and longer-term than a quick audit - and it's potentially riskier from a p.r. standpoint...
...ever jealous of your sister Amy? Dan Burhans DES MOINES, IOWA...
...side, both competing in the javelin event. Karesin’s 41.96-meter throw on her third attempt notched her a 17th spot, while Fronk’s 41.26-meter toss put her at 21st, just a centimeter away from finishing in the top 20. For the men, freshman Dan Chenoweth’s 14:31.59 finish in the 5000-meter run earned him 14th and sophomore Justin Grinstead’s 55.06 time in the 400-meter hurdles preliminaries wasn’t enough to claim a spot in the finals race. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips...