Word: placing
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...Navy abuse of power in Vieques is not limited to the relatively far past of the '40s; all of the 9,300 people living in Vieques have experienced the negative effects of Navy occupation of the island. The people of Vieques live in a place where the cancer rate is 27 percent higher than the rest of Puerto Rico; 50 percent of the people are unemployed and 70 percent of the people live under the official poverty line. Vieques, where fishing has been an essential livelihood for hundreds of years, is greatly affected when most of its waters are kept...
With a combination of record-setting individual performances and a solid team effort, the men's team came away with a first-place finish over Virginia, and the women's team captured second place, losing to the Cavaliers...
TIME: Having ended 14 years of representative government, what do you plan to put in its place...
Servant was an extraordinary piece about an extraordinary man. A man born into seeming impossibility; not uncared for, but equally not understood. Here was a boy of charm and intellect. An enchanted creature that had no apparent place upon this earth. Where would he roam? His life has answered that question. He never wavered from his crusade. Listen he always did. Respect he always had. Love from his generous soul he always offered...
...likely culprits? More often than not, it's the parents--an embarrassment that has prompted the National Alliance for Youth Sports www.nays.org to develop a parental-sportsmanship course that includes a handbook, a video and an ethical code. It instructs parents to respect players, coaches and officials and to "place the emotional and physical well-being" of the child "ahead of a personal desire to win." Thirty leagues are already using the materials. Florida's Jupiter-Tequesta Athletic Association is making the course mandatory...