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Hearteningly, many Americans aren't willing to let the Republicans take that risk. On Monday, hundreds of protesters from 31 states brandished lunch trays and forced House Speaker Newt Gingrich to cancel an appearance before 2,500 Washington, D.C. executives. On an even more grass-roots level, nine-year-old Jennifer Halton of Northern California wrote a letter to her Congressional representative asking him to stop the federal cuts proposed in her school lunch program. And President Clinton has said that if the bill gets to him, he will veto...
...adopted by a San Diego bookkeeper and his wife, Peter and Frances Louganis, when he was nine months old. Because his biological father was Samoan, Greg had dark skin that targeted him as a "nigger"; because he was dyslexic and a stutterer, he was often called a "retard." While his mother encouraged him to take dancing classes, his father virtually ignored his "sissy" son. Growing up with all those stigmas would have been pure hell had the nine-year-old boy not discovered diving...
...that screen and affect each other's lives.'' At some point, Rheingold says, ``it requires a further commitment either in real life or in cyberspace from those people to each other.'' Rheingold cites the death from cancer last August of Kathleen Johnston, a member of the WELL, a nine-year-old Bay Area settlement. Not only did many of the WELL's more than 10,000 subscribers flood Johnston in her waning days with electronic support, consolation and advice, but more than two dozen members took turns going to her home, tending to her needs. ``Not dying alone,'' says Rheingold...
MARIA LA BAJA: Preying on Victims Colombians are heartsick over the plight of nine-year-old Erika Delgado, the sole survivor of a plane crash that took the lives of 51 people, including her mother, father and younger brother, outside Cartagena on Jan. 11. Suffering from fractures and pneumonia, the grief-stricken child has begun to recall the painful details of the accident. Probably pushed from the plane by her mother after it struck the ground and split apart, she landed in a bed of algae and water lilies. Then, according to Erika, someone approached, ignored her cries for help...
...Colombian jetliner crashed near Cartagena, killing all 53 of its passengers but one -- a nine-year-old girl who suffered only a broken shoulder after the crash landing in a swamp. It was "a miracle from God," according to Colombia's civil aviation director...