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...districts are trying to salvage pupils with alternative opportunities, either inside the schools or outside in other facilities. Two years ago Burke Principal Holland in Boston instituted a program called Lifeline for students who are repeating ninth or tenth grade. Three separate classrooms at Burke house some 45 repeaters, who study three core subjects -- English, math and science -- for longer than usual periods. They move only among those three rooms, switching classes at intervals different from the rest of the school. "It is a mechanism so that we don't put 19-year-olds in ninth-grade classrooms next...
...tenth is the guy who dribbles the Russian dressing into the yogurt and granola at the salad...
...young as nine. Child Psychiatrist William Sonis of the University of Pennsylvania, who in a 1985 survey found that 6.5% of 1,000 students at a suburban Minnesota high school had SAD, says that too often "the symptoms are attributed to school-related issues, like the seventh- or tenth-grade slump." Or they are ascribed to behavior problems. "The most prevalent symptom among children is irritability," says Sonis. "Kids said they picked fights and they didn't know why." The clue that their problems are due to SAD: depression recurs year after year...
...work because of malformation, arthritis or injury. Canine hip problems are fairly common, Boudrieu explains, especially in such larger breeds as retrievers, setters, German shepherds and Rottweilers. The operation, which is now offered by only a few animal clinics nationwide, can cost as much as $1,500, or one-tenth the price of a similar human procedure...
...struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager can't play a guy unless that particular guy's supposed to be playing that particular game, that particular...