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...battle for their lives is not yet over. "So many people accept the diagnosis as a death sentence," says one 33-year-old patient. "They just don't want to fight anymore." The chance of being admitted to an experimental drug program, he says, "gives me a little extra hope. Hope is something I don't want to lose." -Reported by Patricia Delaney / Washington, Joyce Leviton/Atlanta and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
Although intended to relieve overcrowding, YRE programs are paying some promising extra dividends. At Franklin Elementary, since 15-day vacations take the place of the long summer break, "students seem to retain more," says Susan Chin, a bilingual Chinese/English teacher. A few schools have already implemented YRE strictly for educational reasons. Parry McCluer High in Buena Vista, Va., boasts the state's only year-round program, and a student body that consistently scores above 95% on the state's compulsory competency test...
...week nearly 800 speakers, would-be speakers, booking agents, college program directors and even a few plain old listeners assembled for the I.P.A. gathering at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The 40 or so established rhetoricians spoke mainly for the fun of it, and perhaps to pick up an extra engagement or two. But the stakes were higher for the competing amateurs, who were hoping to break into the $2 billion-a-year lecture circuit. "This is the marketplace of the profession," explains I.P.A. Director General Dan Tyler Moore. "It has two effects on the speaker: if he's good...
Seeing Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals run out a walk to first base, Rose resolved that he would do that every time if he ever made it to pro ball. Rose's uncle Curley Smart was a clubhouse helper for the Redlegs and helped Pete into an extra uniform. While still in high school, Rose became a familiar figure around the team, having a catch with Johnny Temple or Roy McMillan. Signed eventually at the age of 19 by Buddy Bloebaum, another uncle, Rose took just three years in the minors to turn into an annoying presence at Reds training...
...followed with a homer--on the second pitch. Since Cincinnati used to open before anyone else, I scored the first run of the year." It was the first of 2,129 runs. Off Friend three games later, he collected his maiden hit, a triple, the first of 1,028 extra-base hits...