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Junior attackman B.J. Prager enters the game with a remarkable 27-game goal streak. Senior Matt Striebal is also among the league's scoring leaders...
...Lotte Prager owes her life, and much of the happiness she has enjoyed during her 81 years, to friends. It was friends who helped her escape Nazi Germany in 1937 by paying her first year's tuition at a British teaching college. Then friends at the college helped her get her relatives, including her parents, out of Germany. Following her move to the U.S., Prager met her husband-to-be at a party given by other friends, and after her husband died and her children had grown up, yet another friend helped her find an apartment in New York City...
...Prager's saga may be dramatic, but there is a growing body of evidence that a rich social network may play a life-enhancing, even lifesaving role, particularly as we age. In study after study, researchers have found that people who have strong social relationships live longer--and happier--lives. In a recent study of 2,800 people 65 and older in New Haven, Conn., for example, Carlos Mendes de Leon, at the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, found that those who had more friends were less likely to become disabled and more likely to recover...
Some contend that John Rocker's arguments in that fateful Sports Illustrated interview do not render him worthy of punishment. Famed conservative commentator Dennis Prager has defended Rocker to the hilt. In The Weekly Standard, Prager wrote that Rocker's disparaging remarks about Manhattan and its minority inhabitants "merit as little attention as comic books"--not the "hysteria" that the closing pitcher has received. On his talk show, Prager asserted that Rocker was simply exercising his freedom of speech and had never taken any action against the people who commute on the No. 7 subway train. Why shouldn...
...Prager and others characterize New York's reactions to Rocker as "hysterical," as a product of the media-mob, and as so ridiculous that it could not possibly yield commendable consequences...