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...school we never had a course together. I saw Arne nearly every day at the school gym. He would often be at girls' practice, scrimmaging against us or using any open basket. After his practice, he usually spent more hours at the University of Chicago Field House, playing in pick-up games or just shooting with his whole family. Sometimes a few of the kids from an after-school center his mother ran for underprivileged Black urban youth would join them. She had a gym at the center, and Arne would help her out and, of course, play basketball with...
...Clouds of hot ash made up of pulverized rock were belched twelve miles into the sky. Giant mud slides, composed of melted snow mixed with ash, rumbled down the slopes and crashed through valleys, leaving millions of trees knocked down in rows, as though a giant had been playing pick-up sticks...
...exMarine, Janklow, 5 ft. 10 in. and 225 Ibs., calls himself "the world's best fat-man water skier." He has padded around the Governor's mansion in bunny pajamas. He drives a Corvette and a pick-up truck and, while Governor, has been ticketed for speeding on his Yamaha 1100 motorcycle. He presides over an annual birthday "sock hop" in a greaser's T shirt. But most of Janklow's constituents look beyond the quirks. Admits Frankenfeld: "He's given South Dakotans a sense of pride in their state they haven't felt...
Vermont spent 56 fewer work hours, and 31 percent fewer dollars on litter pick-up after the passage of a bottle bill. After two years with a bottle bill. Oregon litter clean-up bills dropped by an estimated $632,000 per year. Park Managers in Detroit estimate the year's savings after implementation of a bottle bill at $300,000 lows reported a 90 percent reduction of litter in state parks. Bottle bills in two states in which their effect was measured saved enough energy in one. Oregon, to supply house heating needs of 50,000 people...
...this year, the injury gremlin struck again, felling junior redwoods Trout and Joe Carrabino in the preseason. Trout suffered a severe strain in a pick-up game and has yet to return to the starting lineup. The 6-ft., 9-in. 225-pounder seems to be shaking his early-season rust, however, as he grabbed 14 points in 24 minutes of action Wednesday night against Holy Cross...