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...playing organized ball until he was 14. As a child in the Dominican Republic, he was occupied selling oranges for 10[cents] apiece and shining shoes for 25[cents] to help support his widowed mother, four brothers and two sisters in their two-room flat. When former Texas Ranger scout Omar Minaya spotted Sosa playing ball as a 16-year-old in 1985, Minaya recalls that the 150-lb., 5-ft. 10-in. kid, dressed in a borrowed uniform, looked both athletically promising and malnourished. Last year Sosa signed a four-year contract for $42.5 million. Beneficiaries of his generous...
...sons. The results of a recent study of 150 Northeastern boys (that provided some of the material for his book) led him to conclude that boys will eagerly communicate in a supportive environment. Gurian's all for connection, but primarily in the form of male bonding--with coaches, teachers, scout leaders, friends. What boys need, he says, are clans. And rituals of any kind--from dinners with Mom to ball games with Dad--should happen regularly as part of a life in which parents stay in closer touch with their kids...
...Speck b) Sosie Ruth c) Dakota Mayi d) Ireland Eliesse e) Indio f) Scout LaRue g) Peaches h) Cydney i) Hopper Jack j) Chaia k) Jett l) Deni Montana...
BREAKUP BUT WHAT WILL RUMER AND SCOUT...
...booming '90s, the answer is: everything you possibly can. Advertise in any way you know how, including skywriting. Don't forget the Internet; if your company doesn't have a home page, get one quick. Scout the "job fairs" popping up around the country, created for desperate people like you, or organize a fair of your own. And tell your campus recruiters to make their offers to top engineers, computer programmers and chemists more like the deals sports teams shower on athletes--including signing bonuses. Says Jim Bretl, director of the career-services center at Marquette University in Milwaukee...