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Moore got into a jam in her first inning of relief, the fifth. With just one out, Moore walked Holy Cross’s Gwen Reimer, then plunked Elizabeth Foley. Moore got the next batter to fly out to left field, and, though the Crusaders deftly executed a double steal to advance both runners to scoring position, Moore got the next Holy Cross hitter to pop a dinky lob shot to the pitcher’s circle for the third and final...
...cases where students do get the certificate, a rash of studies over the last decade have found that life outcomes for GED holders are similar to that of dropouts themselves. "The GED is not a substitute for a high school," says Mary Reimer of the National Dropout Prevention Center. "And most employers would tell you that too. They would pass up a GED holder for a high school graduate any day." The Department of Defense has come to the same conclusion. Their studies show that half of all alternative credential holders, typically GED holders or correspondence course graduates, quit...
Many feel that along the way, while they were getting their promotion or having their kids or managing their households, they set aside something important that they want to retrieve - their hiking boots, their screenplay, a law degree. "Everybody I know has a version of this," says Susan Reimer-Torn, now a life coach in New York City. "Phase I, you kind of put all the pieces together in your mid- or late 20s, and it almost always involves some kind of trade-off. You figure out what you absolutely must have and end up giving up something else...
...Marie, Ont. Erin Gammel, Barriere, B.C. Brent Hayden, Mission, B.C. Andrew Hurd, Oakville, Ont. Riley Janes, Saskatoon, Sask. Brian Johns, Richmond, B.C. Mark Johnston, St. Catharines, Ont. Morgan Knabe, Calgary Rhiannon Leier, Winnipeg Yannick Lupien, Ste-Foy, Que. Mike Mintenko, Moose Jaw, Sask. Nathaniel O'Brien, Victoria, B.C. Brittany Reimer, Surrey, B.C. Matt Rose, Lindsay, Ont. Rick Say, Salmon Arm, B.C. Lauren van Oosten, Calgary Elizabeth Warden, Toronto...
DIED. DAVID REIMER, 38, who was a boy reared as a girl in an experiment known as the John/Joan case; of suicide; in Winnipeg, Canada. After his circumcision was botched in infancy, Reimer's parents took the advice of a researcher, named their son Brenda, and had him castrated and put on a regimen of hormones that they hoped would turn him into a girl. The case was hailed as proof that behavioral differences between the sexes are learned. After Reimer discovered the truth of his gender at 14, he stopped taking hormones and adopted the name David. He eventually...