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...reality, at best. Netscape still enjoys a comfortable 42 percent of the browser market and that figure will increase to a snugly hegemonic 58 percent after its acquisition by AOL is complete. Then again, Jackson's understanding of the word "eliminate" could just be more rich and nuanced than Webster...
...this freshman class as he took third place in the 149-lbs weight class. Despite losing, 5-4 to Penn's Jody Giuricich in the semis Odom bounced back strong with a 16-1 technical fall in the consolation semis and an 8-6 win over Cornell's Gabe Webster in the finals...
...Webster Groves students' approach to romance may puzzle their parents, but it is familiar to any student of anthropology. Childhood friendships that naturally flow into sex as girls and boys mature are a common pattern in tribal societies, in which everyone knows everyone else and sexuality is taken in stride. So are sexual practices designed to avoid pregnancy, and a lack of desire to spend time with one's partner to the exclusion of other young people--just as at Webster Groves. Dating is a modern invention, which makes sense only among large groups of people who do not know...
...extended vigil kept by the staff, the environment described in your article is very reminiscent of what I remember from the early '80s. Kids are kids wherever you go. They just need a little more protection these days--sometimes from themselves. I am glad to see that Webster Groves High is trying to be proactive without creating a police state within the school. STACY DURAN GOLDEN Valley Village, Calif...
...found the statistics for academic achievement among Webster Groves' African-American students particularly disheartening. It is very sad that the school would place the academic success of its black students, particularly its star athlete, so low. Athletes are to be thanked for the many hours of enjoyment they bring us. Our greatest achievements, however, have been directed by those who possess powerful analytical skills for critiquing both our culture and the nature of man's existence. Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X--none of these men came to prominence by way of athletics. They wielded...