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They have been debating, avidly, for two years, and when their leaders gathered in Pittsburgh, Pa., to settle the matter, discussion dragged on for an unscheduled half a day. But at noon last Wednesday, the domed sanctuary of Pittsburgh's historic Rodef Shalom Congregation rang with cheers. By a vote of 324 to 68, the leadership of the 1.5 million-member Reform movement, the most liberal of American Judaism's three big branches, accepted the inevitability of the yarmulke...
...because teens are expected to be moodier and more withdrawn. They are less likely to realize that they are depressed and thus less likely to seek help. "Younger kids also have more difficulty expressing their feelings in words," says Dr. Boris Birmaher, a child psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh. "When kids become depressed, they become irritable, act out, have temper tantrums and other behavioral problems. It's hard to ascertain that these are the symptoms of depression unless you ask them questions in a language they can understand...
TORONTO--Mats Sundin broke out of his scoring slump and dropped Jaromir Jagr with one of the hardest body checks of the game to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 victory last night that evened their playoff series with the Pittsburgh Penguins at one win each...
Game Three in the NHL Eastern Conference semifinal is tomorrow night in Pittsburgh...
...Thomas blasted a slap shot from the circle to the left of goalie Tom Barrasso high into the Pittsburgh net at 16:50 to end the suspense. Penguins coach Kevin Constantine yelled at referees Don Koharski and Paul Stewart and applauded them for missing what appeared to be an obvious trip of a Penguin that helped the Maple Leafs gain possession of the puck...