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...rhythm of her typing is like a fox trot, steady and deliberate. It is a hot summer day in San Francisco, and Michelle, a chubby black 14-year-old, is practicing her office skills with great fervor, beads of sweat trickling down her brow. She is worried about the future. "I have to get my money together," she frets. "I have to think ahead." Indeed she must. In three weeks this tenth-grader with her hair in braids is going to have a baby. "I have to stop doing all the childish things I've done before," she gravely resolves...
...much of the lore surrounding the subject has been exaggerated. ATLA analyzed several cases that insurers regularly trot out to prove that the system has got out of hand and found that the facts did not quite support the versions that have passed into insurance folklore and public print, although one or two, even after correction, still sound odd. Some examples...
...king. For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo ... The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album ... For those who must wait outside the museum, 16 portable 'Tutlets' are at their disposal ... 'The civic and cultural leaders are ridiculing the Egyptian deity,' [one of the exhibition's organizers] complained. 'Why can't we do something with a little class...
...identity of the fourth starter, as it was this past weekend against the Bears, remains the biggest mystery. Walsh may choose to trot out junior Javy Castellanos on Sunday again...
...never forget the thrill of getting a razor sharp tool.” He used his first chisel as a child in the garage of his rural Florida home. Now the official Woodshop Coordinator for the VES department, Stanulcompares working with a table saw to the fox trot...