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...seems, even high schools have fallen into the trap. An article in the Oct. 30 issue of The New York Times Magazineexamining a prototypical suburban high school in Brownwood, TX revealed some rather alarming information. Corporal punishment is regularly used on players who misbehave or demonstrate conduct unbecoming a team member. Some parents hold their sons back a grade so that "they will be bigger when they try out for the high school team." And on one occasion, after a season of repeated losses, a coach received so many threatening phone calls before an upcoming game that he was forced...

Author: By D. H. P, | Title: Football Mania | 11/12/1983 | See Source »

...days, Watergate led Americans through a dark, tx wildering forest, through thickets of paranoia, past caves from which they heard voices-intimate, vengeful, disconcerting. The Oval Office transcripts lifted a rock. The tapes that Nixon accumulated and, inexplicably, never burned, seemed almost deliberately calculated to record the drama of his own unworthiness. It was as if the height of his life's success must produce some penance, some immense undoing, some terrible self-inflicted vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate's Clearest Lesson | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...Royals are high on lefty Keith Creel, a pitcher at Jacksonville (Southern) who should be up with the big club by the end of the year. Creel hails from Duncanville, Tx., and played college, ball at the U of Texas in Austin. His brother, Leland, plays first base for Lubbock Christian College, the host team for the NAIA World Series which begins June...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Looks Like A Strike | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

...USDA scientists is a creature with the formidable name of Toxorhynchites rutilus rutilus. During its larval stage in stagnant water, the mosquito feeds on the larvae of more common, biting and disease-carrying cousins, like the Aedes aegypti, which also breeds in pools and water-filled containers. Although the Tx. rutilus is found from Florida to Canada and as far west as Texas, it is not very prolific by insect standards and does not exist naturally in numbers large enough to control the population of other mosquitoes. That deficiency presents no problem to USDA Entomologist Dana Focks, who has learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Mosquito | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...what happens after Tx. rutilus does in large numbers of the prey mosquitoes? Does it turn, in its adult stage, to bigger meals?like man? Fortunately, the bug's proboscis cannot penetrate the skin of animal or human, and the adult depends for food only on flower nectar and plant detritus. Thus for mosquito control, as Focks puts it, "the Toxorhynchites is a neat package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Mosquito | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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