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...daughter's life as an "unaccompanied minor" started last year when I put her on a plane for the first time by herself. After I had ferried her for years between Washington and New York to visit her dad, she felt ready, at 12, to go alone. The airline let me accompany her onto the plane and get her settled in her seat. I had scanned the flight crew for signs of fatigue or drunkenness, introduced myself to the flight attendants and inspected the wings to make sure they were attached to the aircraft before my daughter looked...
...guys in the bleachers alike. Its specialness hits you on the first page. A mock poster advertises a (fictional) all-Jewish baseball team, The Stars of David. Narrated by the Stars' manager, Noah "The Zion Lion" Strauss, the story takes place during the 1920s and the days of barnstorming minor leagues - back when the game had a bit more vaudeville and bit less Hollywood...
...billion years that the universe has been around (and that?s what looking into deep space is, looking back in time toward the Big Bang), the fine constant has changed with age, even the minor change of 1 in 100,000 these scientists are talking about has profound implications. This was a figure that was supposed to be rock solid...
...some work will begin on the building before the major construction begins next spring. Padgett said this fall the college will start minor repairs—“fixing up some small things that have fallen by the wayside...
...Bush's dilemma, of course, is minor when compared with Sharon's. Six months ago, the Likud leader won a landslide election victory on promises to end the intifada by getting tough. Yet Sunday's shooting attack that wounded eight Israelis in downtown Tel Aviv was a dramatic reminder that Israelis are essentially as insecure now as when they elected Sharon. And the current situation, in which one or two Israelis are killed every week in the West Bank or Gaza may be politically unsustainable in the long run for the Israeli government. After all, it was the deaths...