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...surviving commies in Cuba didn't do half badly. They may have failed to lift the prized baseball gold from the Yanquis, but finished in eighth place overall with 29 medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give...
...settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood - to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya, Brandon was named Most Improved Student; last month he returned to a highly regarded magnet school in Baltimore, where he just aced his first Latin test...
...spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save the boys with strong discipline, "tons and tons" of adult attention and an accelerated academic program that will be a source of pride to them when they return to Baltimore...
Both Harvard (3-2-1) and Boston College (5-2) find themselves on the verge of breakthrough seasons. With the Eagles currently ranked eighth in the New England region and the Crimson close behind at No. 10, Sunday's non-conference match will have considerable implications in the regional picture...
...Loftis teaches ancient history to sixth-graders and American history and civics to seventh- and eighth-graders...