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Hammond offers a theory about the average hockey family, a middle- to upper-middle class family. The family supports his son by enrolling him in a private school, where the quality of hockey is the best around. After spending a substantial amount of money on the son's high-school experience as a hockey player, the question of which college to attend becomes a financial problem...
That week, the commissioner of youth and high-school hockey in Massachusetts had issued dire warnings about the prevalence of misconduct by youth hockey players. In the following week, the commissioner's suspicions seemed to have been well-founded. Twenty two-game suspensions and two one year suspensions were doled out in one seven-day period, matching the number of suspensions that had been handed out in the first half of the season...
What do female college graduates have in common with male high-school dropouts? On average, they have been earning roughly the same amount of money: $20,000 for the women and $19,000 for the men. That is one of the dismaying findings of an economic study titled The American Woman 1987-88, which was released by the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues...
...honors psychology major, Withy was accepted to Harvard Early Action four years ago and came to Cambridge as a high-school All-America water polo player. She joined a small team with an inexperienced coach, but since then the water polo program has taken a turn for the better...
Others started playing video games when they were quite young and haven't stopped yet. "Across the street from my elementary school was an arcade owned by a drug-dealing high-school dropout who was dedicated to education," says Wice. "She'd give us free games for every A on our report card, so I started playing pinball in the fourth grade. She used to sell a lot of pot, too, but I didn't know what at was at the time...