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That was a lot of pressure for a youngster, and I couldn't handle it. After falling short one day in the standing broad jump, I holed up in my bedroom for three hours attempting again and again to hit the mark, which I'd indicated on the floor with a piece of masking tape. Each time I missed, fresh tears welled up. Science had proved my inadequacy, it seemed, and soon the news would reach the President's desk...
...when Haviland allowed the first two Cornell batters to reach base—on a single and a walk—and continued to miss high with a fastball that “didn’t have much pop,” as he said later, the youngster needed to find inspiration...
...that got KATIE HOLMES' little tween heart pumping way back when? As a youngster, "I used to think I was going to marry TOM CRUISE," Holmes told Seventeen magazine last fall. Does Cruise read Seventeen? The action star, 42, is squiring the pert Dawson's Creek actress, 26, around Italy, with reps for both admitting they're "dating." Skeptics note the pair have summer films to promote--Batman Begins for her and War of the Worlds for him--making this a nice time to toss the paparazzi some A-list meat. Indeed, Cruise's exes--Oscar winner Nicole Kidman...
...last week's New York Times, "could you give police an accurate description?" Most parents probably could, but doubt was at the heart of the campaign by Lafayette/Circuit City, a consumer-electronics chain with headquarters in Richmond. As an identification aid against the terrible day when a youngster might disappear, the ad offered a free videotape of any child brought to a Lafayette store in the New York City area, urging parents to "bring your own videotape or [we] will sell you one at cost...
...mineral water sparingly as a solvent, a young Red Cross doctor patiently removed a stifling mud casing from a toddler, to discover a girl wearing tiny golden earrings. The doctor removed mud from the child's eyes and mouth, and was rewarded with a cry of "Mami." The youngster, named Sandra, was one of only five small children rescued Friday from the mud of Armero. A three-year-old boy was found cradled by both his dead parents on a partly submerged mattress under a mango tree...