Word: pools
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DIED. TOM MEES, 46, ESPN sportscaster; by accidental drowning; in Southington, Connecticut. Although police were unable to confirm it, initial reports were that Mees jumped into a neighbor's pool to rescue his four-year-old daughter. His wife told police that Mees could not swim...
...could sympathize with his opinion of drinking, but his reasons for swimming and smoking (he said he would smoke while swimming if the pool's water didn't extinguish his cigarettes) made little sense. I responded by asking him how he could smoke given all of the links between smoking and cancer, heart disease and lung disease...
Peterson noted that the control group in the public schools was drawn from a pool of students rejected from the voucher program, thus ensuring that these students were from families concerned about education...
Viewers may have had trouble seeing it on NBC's equally disputed TV coverage (which opted for flashy individual performances on the track and in the diving pool over less glamorous team efforts), but sisterhood was powerful at the Atlanta Games. Sparked by Richardson, and by dominating pitching from Lisa Fernandez and Michele Granger, the U.S. softball team survived some low-scoring squeakers (and a 2-1 loss to Australia in extra innings) to capture the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded in the sport. The U.S. women's soccer team also dispatched the world's top teams, including Norway...
Governor William F. Weld '66 has reportedly narrowed his pool for the state's high court to a short list of about 15 Massachusetts lawyers and judges, although he has made no public announcements about the search...