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...other athletes selected for the honor guard were Kristina Sabasteanski, a biathlete who serves in the military; skeleton racer Lea Ann Parsley, a firefighter in Ohio; curler Stacy Liapis; luger Mark Grimmette; speedskater Derek Parra; and freestyle skier Chris Klug, who is back in the games after a liver transplant...
...weeks ago are home nursing their wounds. For a small but important minority of the Islamic world, America will always be the Great Satan. Afghanistan was not the end but the beginning. We are going to have to do this all over again, perhaps many times. HERBERT K. LEA Lookout Mountain, Tenn...
...CLASS ACT: Author Cheri Register sometimes tells people that her Ph.D from the University of Chicago stands for Packinghouse Daughter. That?s what she is - the daughter of a retired Wilson & Company millwright in a meatpacking pant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. That?s also the name of her new book, "Packinghouse Daughter" (Perennial/HarperCollins; paperback), a splendid memoir of her family?s blue-collar life in the 1950s, and the 109-day strike that divided the town...
...smack into the class divide when she went from small-town life in Albert Lea to the University of Chicago. "It was major culture shock," she says. "There were ways of life that I had read books about, and fantasized about, but never imagined were real. I discovered how ignorant I was of the culture with a capital C." But, she adds, "I caught on eventually to how ignorant and provincial those people were. They knew nothing of my life...
...couldn't write Jaws today." After 25 years of research, the demonization of sharks doesn't hold, he says. "It used to be believed that great white sharks did target humans; now we know that except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes." Dr. Robert Lea, a marine biologist working for the state of California, goes further: "I used to call them shark attacks--now I call them incidents. It is not a case of sharks preying on humans. It is just humans sharing a spot in the ocean with sharks--at the wrong time...