Word: smith
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...season began on a high note as Radcliffe won the competitive Beantown Tournament, dominating Smith, Bowdoin and Amherst, before gaining a solid victory over arch-rival Penn State...
Clearly, the responsibility for children starts at home. Two days after the Colorado school killings, the Smith family of Eden Prairie, Minn., discussed the tragedy's fallout over dinner. Katie, 16, Peter, 14, Mike, 12, and Brian, 9, were concerned about the newly tightened security at schools. Their mother Beth was worried too--about what the Nintendo console in the basement might be doing to her kids. She decided that there would be no more violent video games in the Smith house. "I told them they could go jump on the trampoline or play the pinball machine or air hockey...
...matter what she did, Cindy Smith just couldn't shed the 60 lbs. she'd gained during her pregnancy nine years ago. She went through over-the-counter weight-loss pills, liquid diets, starvation diets--always with the same result. "I would try it for about a week," says Smith, 38, a customer-service manager at a Houston bank. "I'd lose maybe 5 to 10 lbs., then get discouraged and end up dropping...
...friend told her about an experimental diet drug being tested at nearby Baylor University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
WASHINGTON: Well, now we know the Littleton massacre was important: President Clinton's having a White House symposium about it. Educators, cops, Hollywood executives and gun-lobbyists alike, from Gloria Estefan to the CEO of Smith & Wesson, were all there Monday, and Clinton isn't pointing fingers at any of them. "We are not here to place blame, but to shoulder responsibility," he said in a brief statement before the gab-fest was closed to the media. He's got a better idea, a way to get to the head of the class on Littleton without upsetting anyone...