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...doubt be circling around the Yards like sharks tonight to encourage that); players hope to convince Castro to allow them to play as long as they continue to live (and pay taxes) in Cuba. But before that, there's the game, and what could be the Cubans' secret weapon: the Orioles left behind a cache of wooden bats for the cash-strapped Cubans accustomed to more durable aluminum ones. Given a month to practice, they might just play well enough to bring a smile to Castro's face -- and perhaps even to grab their own share of baseball...
Every day, 94 people die of gunshot wounds, and 12 of them are under 20 years old. 90 percent of children in shootings involved a weapon found in the home. One in four American homes have a gun. And as a study released Monday shows, 59 percent of gun owners do not checking their guns daily, with 17 percent of them not checking the guns for over a month. Since parents don't watch over their guns very well, the data suggest stricter laws will reduce kids' access to guns, reduce the number of kids who use guns and ultimately...
Every day, 94 people die of gunshot wounds, and 12 of them are under 20 years old. 90 percent of children in shootings involved a weapon found in the home. One in four American homes have a gun. And as a study released Monday shows, 59 percent of gun owners do not check their guns daily, with 17 percent of them not checking the guns for over a month. Since parents don't watch over their guns very well, the data suggest stricter laws will reduce kids' access to guns, reduce the number of kids who use guns and ultimately...
...Phoenix, Ariz., was recently found to be suffering from metastatic breast cancer, an especially aggressive malignancy that had already ranged well beyond the site of the original disease. Eventually she and her doctors agreed they should attack the advancing cancer with what many people believe is the most potent weapon available: high-dose chemotherapy accompanied by a transplant of stem cells, precursors of disease-fighting immune-system cells...
Kevin C. Wehr, a third-year sociology student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and president of the Teaching Assistant Association, agrees that their union, the AFL-CIO, was a powerful weapon in recent contract negotiations that resulted in tuition wavers for many graduate students...