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...trains routinely stop at the Hop-In Grocery for a coffee break. But when the train gets going, it really gets going. The wheels clank heavily against the tracks and the cars rattle and shake fiercely. The fainthearted are left wishing they had never hopped on. The real pros, though, ride that baby confidently and wait for just the right moment to jump off and roll, stunt-man style, upon the grassy bend in the neighboring town of Holly...
...Highland Township teenagers who hopped the CSX train on June 18 were far from pros. Afraid to jump off at Holly, they froze and wound up 25 miles north in a rough section of Flint. One of the boys, Michael Carter, 14, ended up dead. Another, Dustin Kaiser, 15, was beaten brutally before taking a bullet in the head. And the third, Nicole, 14, whose family asked that only her first name be used in this story, was pistol-whipped and shot in the face after being forced to perform oral sex. A few days later, six suspects, four...
...feeling is that there are pros and cons of both," Asani says. "One year of language doesn't give somebody sufficient competency. But on the other hand, I realize that undergraduates have a lot of other requirements to fulfill...
...season. And by learning an art, they will achieve an even greater respect for it. Campers will choose two courses from 34 programs in music, dance, art, theater, writing and chess. By midseason, many of them will demonstrate their skills for their peers in the same time slots the pros will have occupied...
...guides will have no trouble spotting the less experienced ones among their eight charges. Though burdened with a 45-to-50-lb. backpack, the uninitiated typically try to forge ahead of their more experienced comrades. After the first breathless leg, however, they'll be pacing themselves like pros...