Word: jersey
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...Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), who has traveled to China to lecture at Drexel's sister school there, presented Jiang with a parting gift. As Weldon described the dual importance of cultivating the mind and the body, he pulled out a white and orange Philadelphia Flyers hockey jersey with Jiang's name in black...
Demographics show, furthermore, that the cognitive and moral abilities of juvenile delinquents are disproportionately impaired by drug addiction, gang-mentality, developmental delays, mental illness, moral ambiguity, socialization in a culture of violence and psychological trauma often stemming from abuse or neglect. The story of the 15-year old New Jersey teenager charged with sexually assaulting and strangling an 11-year old neighbor boy is all too common: sexually assaulted by a pedophile, the teenager turned around and inflicted harm on someone even more helpless than himself...
...limited value as a deterrent to crime, it also has the counterproductive effect of aggravating it. Treat a person like a criminal and that person will think of him or herself as one and behave accordingly. The Columbia University School of Public Health found, in comparing teenagers in New Jersey who were treated as juveniles and teenagers in New York who were treated as adults, that those who were treated as juveniles were significantly less likely to be re-arrested than those treated as adults. A 1996 University of Florida study corroborated these results...
...bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey to Alaska. But such comparisons say nothing about why even poor districts somehow manage to produce a handful of excellent schools, such as Baltimore's Canton Middle School (see box), flourishing even though 86% of its students fall below the poverty line. Nor do comparisons explain situations where schools spend...
...beginning was the letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...