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Nurse Lynn Buss and her husband, who have put three football-player sons through Webster Groves, wince whenever someone takes a good hit. She knows them by name and by injury. "Look, Matt Koch is playing," she points out. "He had an injured vertebra last year." She erupts when junior Jerry Bailey scores. "Hey, that guy was in my clinic at 4 yesterday pretending he was sick! That little stinker...
...bigger things that have Dreher worried tonight. Just a few blocks away, a neighbor spotted a gun being passed to two white males in a Chrysler Le Baron. Though there's nothing to link the incident to Webster Groves High, he's scouring the parking...
...half time Webster is way ahead, 48-14. As the players jog off the field, a girl screams, "Bobby! Bobby!" But Bobby doesn't hear her. He still hasn't got his touchdown. In the locker room, Coach Ice throws cold water on them. "I don't want to be happy beating a bad football team by four touchdowns. If we play a good team, we can't do crap like this. I want to play good football all the time...
...second half is crushing, merciless. Webster scores again and again, Finally, finally, Beth's swain puts his arm around her. But time has been ticking down. Just as he does it, defensive back Carl Whittaker intercepts and runs from his own 10 all the way down the field and scores as the clock runs out. Beth leaps up and screams, and the boy's arm slides off--for now. Webster wins 61-14. The crowd whoops, the cheerleaders kick, parents, including Bobby's, run out onto the field to grab their smelly kids and hug them...
...jaded as they may sound, the science teachers say they love their jobs. Several, like Margaret Skouby, who teaches concept physics, worked as chemical engineers or had other jobs in the private sector before coming here. At Webster they generally have the freedom to teach the way they want. Teachers must meet minimums in the school's curriculum but are not required to write out lesson plans. They measure the rewards in bits. Just as the lunch bell rang yesterday, longtime physics teacher Phillip Wojak rushed into the lounge, almost too excited to speak. A former student had published...