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...finally, Tripp Tracy never gave up, playing perhaps the best he has all season after Colgate's third goal. He held the fort for the final eight minutes of regulation and stoned the Red Raiders five times in overtime, four from point-blank range...
Plenty of laws and international agreements forbid such trade, but enforcement ranges from spotty to nonexistent. That's why delegates to this week's 126-nation biennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Fort Lauderdale will be considering a proposal for a worldwide enforcement agency that would pool information from member countries and coordinate prosecution efforts...
...Fort Myers, Florida, the juvenile-crime rate has dropped 27% since the start-up three years ago of STARS, an academic and recreation program targeted at youths. Moreover, where only 25% of the city's youths had higher than a C average four years ago, today 75% are getting C's or better. While it would cost $15,000 to send a miscreant youth to boot camp for a year, STARS spends just $158 a child to provide music and dance lessons, sports and tutoring. When youths participate in such programs, says Wilbur Smith III, the city's mayor, they...
...drama was familiar, and so, tragically, was its conclusion. Three days before Susan Smith reported her children abducted, 24-year-old Pauline Zile told police that while she and her daughter Christina Holt were at the Swap Shop flea market just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the seven-year-old had disappeared from a stall in the ladies' room. For five days, Zile played the terrified mother on television, weeping and running her fingers through the hair of one of her daughter's dolls. A massive hunt for the little girl commenced...
...counteract genes until we know more about them." Learning more about basic issues in science and technology has been a lifelong passion for Wright, 37. His first book was Three Scientists and Their Gods (1988), which alternated profiles with essays on science and philosophy. Born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and educated at Princeton, he lives with his wife and two young daughters in Washington. He will start a new book "when I get over this...