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...Bobby is at an inflection point that will largely determine the course of his life. Right now he's got athletic talent and fame, and everyone wishes him well. But will he build on that, or will he peak as a senior in high school? He has applied to join the Navy, but still hopes for a football scholarship to college. One problem: his GPA is 1.6, and he has only seven months to pull that up to a 2.0 to be eligible for college sports and, more important, to get enough English credits to graduate. Another is that until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 7:01 P.M. Home And Away | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...program. The Adolescent Parenting Program (APP) was created in 1981, when the wave of teenage pregnancies was at its peak. The day care component, First Steps (also known as the CRLS Adolescent Parenting Infant /Toddler Child Care) formally opened in September...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Teens and Their Tots | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Tensions between the two Houses arose early in the semester, when Adams started using stickers on resident ID cards to help enforce its long-standing ban on interhouse dining during peak meal hours...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Casualties In Pfoho-Adams War | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Tensions between the two Houses arose early in the semester, when Adams began using stickers on resident ID cards to help enforce its long-standing ban on interhouse dining during peak dining hours...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spirit Unleashed As House War Ends | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

DIED. ALEX LOWE, 40, perhaps the greatest American mountaineer in recent years; in a massive avalanche on Tibet's Shisha Pangma, the world's 14th highest peak. Lowe climbed the nose of El Capitan in 10 hrs. and made the first solo ascent of the north face of Wyoming's Grand Teton. He conquered Everest twice. Despite the superlatives regularly heaped on him by colleagues, he said, "I'm just the world's most dogmatic climber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 18, 1999 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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