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...secrets to the Soviet Union's repeated success in various Olympic sports was that the country's state-run system allowed the government to go into preschools and scout out children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America...
...Evening with Champions" is not your ordinary figure-skating show. Organized by Eliot House students, it's a benefit whose proceeds go to The Jimmy Fund, to help children suffering from cancer. Although adults suffer from various kinds of cancer far more than children do, the fund specifically asks us to direct our help toward children. Why? Children suffering from cancer are not any less deserving of their pain than affected adults are. But children facing potentially terminal illnesses move our hearts all the more because they have not yet even had a chance to decide what they want...
Lafler said the members of Baby Ray wereinfluenced by various artists including XTC, NRBQ,the Beatles, Guided by Voices and Joni Mitchell...
Representatives from the various departments meet monthly and remain accessible to each other at all times...
Since that date, more than 100 giant squid, all dead, have been found on various coastlines and in the nets of deep sea fishers. While scientists have learned much about the animal, it still remains somewhat of an enigma...