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...Summitt could reach that feat on Feb. 2, when the Lady Vols play Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. Before win number 999 against the University of Mississippi on Jan. 29, Summitt, who has won eight national titles over her 35-year career with the Lady Vols, including the '07 and '08 championships, spoke to TIME's Sean Gregory about the challenges of coaching today's player, how she thinks she'd do in the NBA, and her cheerleading skills...
...litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances without the principal's permission; a town slide in Oklahoma is dismantled for liability concerns. "To restore our freedom, we have to purge law from most daily activities," writes Howard. But this seething polemic is less about a society buried in paperwork than one that clings to procedure like a crutch - and has lost its capacity for independent thought...
...just across Lafayette Park from the White House, has clogged the capital's arteries. It's also compounding the crosstown traffic crawl, which has only gotten worse since President Clinton shut down the nearby two blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in 1995 following the Oklahoma City bombing...
...story begins early last fall, when Lynch, 43, scoured the Internet. Lean and almost six foot tall, with hair cut nearly to her skull, Lynch lived alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sustained by Social Security benefits granted early due to a mental illness. She landed on the website of the Sons of Dixie, a group that had been founded by Raymond "Chuck" Foster. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
...That number then gets divided by what the average apartment would rent for over the course of a year, a number generated by the real-estate-research outfit Property & Portfolio Research. Since each metro area has its own characteristics - there's a lot more land to build on in Oklahoma City than there is in Oakland, Calif., for example - certain pockets of the country have naturally higher price-rent ratios than do others...