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...coach Pingatore worried about Carl's low marks and the risk that he might lose the scholarship. Pingatore had an idea for bringing up Carl's grade-point average. He had Carl enroll in two correspondence courses -- American government and civics -- at the Loretto Extension Service in Wheaton, Ill. Carl did assignments in a workbook under the tutelage of Pingatore. He received an A in both courses. The grades were recorded on his regular high school transcript. There was no reference on the transcript to any correspondence courses. The only thing to set the courses apart was the postgraduation completion...
...Clomid and Pergonal, which can result in the development of more than one egg at a time. By using hormonal stimulants, Howard Jones "harvests" an average of 5.8 eggs per patient; it is possible to obtain as many as 17. "I felt like a pumpkin ready to burst," recalls Loretto Leyland, 33, of Melbourne, who produced eleven eggs at an Australian clinic, one of which became her daughter...
...environmental and consumer groups might take some comfort in the problem facing the Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. It is being taken to court by, of all adversaries, an order of Roman Catholic nuns. Armed with 81 shares of Blue Diamond stock, the 750-member Sisters of Loretto, a teaching order based in Denver, last week joined twelve other parties in bringing a lawsuit against the company. The nuns' eventual aim, as one of them describes it: to urge the company toward greater "corporate responsibility...
...seventh fight on the card, the light heavy weight contest between Anthony Doti of Providence, R.I. and Dennis Crowe of Mt. Loretto, N.Y. brought the crowd to a screaming frenzy with a nine-minute melee that ended with the New Yorker gaining a controversial decision...
...night closed with heavyweight Chris McDonald of Fall River. Mass., the three-time New England Amateur Champ, out-pointing Steve Floch, also from Mt. Loretto...