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...receive public funds and technical assistance. And the Louisiana Recovery Authority stresses the need to involve and support religious leaders and their organizations. But the city's faith-based organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts going will require affirmative answers to fervent prayers for more money and volunteers. Catholic Charities and Habitat are short-staffed and stretched thin...
...nation in points per game, assists, and assists per game. She finishes her career as the NCAA’s all-time assist leader and third on the school’s scoring list with 196 points.But it may be the gutsy team efforts, such as the seven-period grind in the quarterfinal loss to Wisconsin, that she will remember best. “I’m sad that I won’t get a chance to put on that Harvard jersey again,” Chu said in her acceptance speech. “That...
...root out the genetically modified corn, Straus spent several months and about $10,000 testing, re-testing and tracing back his products: from his own dairy's milk, to other dairies that supply some of his milk, to the brokers who sell them feed, to their mills that grind the corn, to farmers who grow it. To put the GM-free label on his ice cream, Straus will have to trace the chickens that provided the egg yolks, the grain used in the alcohol that carries his vanilla extract and the soy lecithin used as an emulsifier for his chocolate...
...history to record a goals-against average below 1.00. Throughout the regular season, sophomore Brittany Martin and freshman Christina Kessler were both given well-deserved time in the net, though Martin earned all three ECAC playoff starts. “It’s really going to be a grind from this point on,” said Chu of the parity that characterizes the tournament this year. “No one team has an easy walk through to the final four or championship game.”—Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached...
...pitchers are the ones who should benefit most from the extended prep, as they can power up their arms, which will take a beating during the long grind ahead. But ex-New York Mets general manager Steve Phillips says, "Pitchers complain about it too." Phillips thinks spring training is excessive for the position players, but insists the pitchers need the six weeks. But look at 1995. That year the players' strike was resolved in the spring, and everyone - pitchers and position players alike - got just three weeks to prepare. Lo and behold, no one's arm melted...