Word: heaps
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...remember thinking he was the second best player in the state, next to Todd Heap,” Rice says. (Heap is now the starting tight end for the Baltimore Ravens.) “He’s a relentless player, very aggressive, one of the hardest working kids around. But his speed sets him apart. He used to place in the 100 meters. We looked at him and said, no question, he is definitely Pac-10 material...
...second time choking on tears--to assure her mother Ginny that he was O.K. and was being evacuated. Several hours later, Hilary, watching TV along with the rest of her sixth-grade class, saw one of the endless replays of her father's office building collapsing in a heap...
...first official day of summer, Ginny was hooking up the sprinkler system in her garden when she nearly tripped over the family's younger cat, Timothy, who had collapsed in a lifeless heap. Hilary was not around, so Ginny slid him into the cat carrier and sped off to the animal hospital. After rounds of tests, the vet could not say what precisely was wrong, only that the problem looked terminal. On the theory that "if [Hilary] couldn't control her dad's death, here was one she could," Ginny left the decision making in her daughter's hands...
...difficult to envision how those who were extricated from the fiery heap survived. Like Genelle, two Port Authority cops were buried but not mortally wounded by hurtling chunks of stone and metal--even as people in close proximity were killed. Pasquale Buzzelli--who worked with Genelle on the 64th floor and was also in stairway B at 10:28 a.m.--fell when the stairwell broke under him but somehow landed atop a rickety pile of debris. These four were rescued before they were burned in creeping fires or crushed in mini-collapses in the later hours of Sept...
...weeks won't matter," says Bank of America analyst William Leach, who expects Nestlé and Britain's Cadbury to explore a joint deal. If a sale happens, the new owners are expected to assure the townsfolk that things won't change - but it's going to take a heap of sugar to make that medicine go down...