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...sounds like a hard gauntlet to run, but the good news is South Carolina doesn't have to go 4-0 to earn a spot in the Sugar Bowl. A 2-2 might be good enough as long as the Gamecocks pick and choose which games to win and lose...
...years, Kelly Kiser-Mostrom and her husband Ken Mostrom of Lincoln, Neb., had been relying on an established local agency to find a healthy baby to adopt. They had gone through the adoption gauntlet once before, with their first daughter, so they knew how long it could take. But they were getting impatient to "complete our family," as Kelly puts it. So they used their new computer to expand their search, browsing through online adoption sites. In April 1998, one of the sites referred them to Sonya Furlow and her Tender Hearts Adoption Facilitation Services, located in Philadelphia...
...answer why - that, he said, will be "for some future researchers to investigate." And there is reason to hope that low-weight children born more recently, with more sophisticated care at their disposal, will fare better than the generation Conley studied. But his findings throw down a heavy gauntlet for those "future researchers" to take up: Discover and combat whatever is causing the cognitive gap that begins in those crucial first months, because it seems to follow a child throughout his life...
...they were sprayed with supersoaker water guns and groped, and their tops were pulled off. Yet when they finally found an officer, his first response, they say, was "Calm down." Another told them he couldn't leave his post to investigate whether other women were still trapped in the gauntlet. An exasperated Cover yelled at the cops, "What do you mean you can't do anything?" The friends plan to sue the city...
...heart of Little Havana, there was a gauntlet of concrete benches, garbage Dumpsters, newspaper boxes, STOP signs, chairs and other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...