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...experience should help her reclaim a spoton the team every year between now and 2002, whenthe United States will try to defend its goldmedal in Salt Lake City...
Like any other good teacher, Jim Morris thought his students weren't working up to their potential. When kids on the high school baseball team he coached in Big Lake, Texas, complained that he was throwing too hard in batting practice, he told them to quit whining. After all, this was a team that had only three wins in each of the three seasons before Morris showed up in 1997. But the players knew their coach's fastball was major league scary. So when he gave them a pep talk about following their dreams, they challenged him to follow...
...pretty mess," his mother warned him. But the 22-year-old Albert, as roguishly independent in his personal life as he would be in his science, brushed off Mutti's agitated words and continued the romance. On Jan. 27, 1902, nine months after an idyllic interlude at Lake Como, Albert's classmate--and future wife--Mileva Maric secretly gave birth to a girl at her parents' home back in Serbia. Neither Mileva nor Albert ever talked about her, even to close friends. Like some brief, fiery meteor, the baby named Lieserl (diminutive for Elisabeth) soon vanished into the Balkan night...
Lily Eskelsen is a 20-year veteran of parent-teacher conferences, both in her years of teaching sixth grade at Orchard Elementary School, just outside Salt Lake City, and as the mother of two sons. She says both the ingratiators and the intimidators have it wrong because they're concerned with power relationships rather than partnership. "Parents," she says, "should think of themselves as part of a team with the teacher and the child"--and shouldn't tussle over who gets to be quarterback...
...doubt these are contributing factors. But let's get back to the functional definition of a flood. To most people, it's an overflowing river, lake or reservoir. To insurers, it's any water that enters a building from the floor, no matter what the source of the water. In a hard rain you can get flooded on top of a mountain. That's not widely understood. Even less appreciated is the Federal Government's role as the sole underwriter of flood insurance since 1969. Almost any agent can offer the coverage on behalf of the government, but the agent...