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...most part, the nine, many of whom have known one another from childhood, have maintained that unity. Confronted with the craziness, boosterism and venality that attend every American miracle, they found strength in group identity. They greeted George W. Bush together, attended NASCAR races and Pittsburgh Steelers training camp in large subunits, and still hunt and fish together. Early on, when scores of reporters and producers a day called, jockeying for the story, the nine agreed to sell their rights to Disney and split the money evenly, at $150,000 apiece. With their anniversary looming, five of them gathered...
Randy Fogle and another of the miners, John Unger, do some motivational speaking, sometimes for money and sometimes for free. Not long ago, he talked to 5,000 children in Pittsburgh. "I told them," he says, "the thing that saved us was God and the people who rescued us. That's the bottom line. But we never gave up. So no matter what you do or what you're in, if you always try, you are going to get what you want. The basic thing is to never give up." The message sounds fairly predictable, until he happens to mention...
Whitesides is a former chair of the Harvard chemistry department. In addition to being named a recipient of the Kyoto Prize, he was also named a recipient of the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award earlier this year...
...sausage race at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, turned ugly when the Pittsburgh Pirates' RANDALL SIMON thwacked the Italian sausage, Mandy Block, 19, with a bat as she passed by the dugout. She and an adjacent hot dog toppled over, but neither was hurt. Simon, who was suspended for three games and fined $2,432, apologized, but TV sports and news shows were grateful for a video they could replay endlessly...
...mandatory. Part of that testing should be reaction-time-based (developed by physicists) and really show how dangerous a driver can be, especially to him/herself. Should independence for one person cost the life of another human being? Driving is a privilege, not a right. Be responsible. Mary Causey Pittsburgh...