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...seemed as if every week during the indoor season, he was breaking his own school 500-meter record--he accomplished that feat four times this year. The mark now stands at 10:03.01, with the nearest person in school history .73 seconds behind. Ciollo was Second Team All-Ivy last year and this year in the 500-meter, Second team in the 4x400 relay two years ago, and was First Team in the distance medley relay as a freshman...
...work, and when she tried to put Jessica in state-funded care, she was told she was "coping too well." For almost a year, until she found teaching work, Rowling lived off public assistance. Every day, to escape her damp, unheated flat, she'd take the baby to the nearest cafe and write away, nursing a cup of coffee. In 1995, after she found an agent in a writers' directory, a British publisher offered her a tiny advance of around $4,000. "I'm lucky by anyone's standards, not just single-mother standards," Rowling says. "The crucial thing...
...MOMMY NEAREST Lost? No, she's been found. Jill Clayburgh, iconic, liberated divorce of '70s cinema, is returning to pop culture as an only slightly older-looking unmarried woman. In the NBC sitcom Everything's Relative, Clayburgh is obsessed with her ex and her two grown sons. They're an amusing lot, and, surprisingly, they come from the producers of The Golden Girls...
Farnsworth was born in 1906 near Beaver City, Utah, a community settled by his grandfather (in 1856) under instructions from Brigham Young himself. When Farnsworth was 12, his family moved to a ranch in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from the nearest high school, thus necessitating his daily horseback rides. Because he was intrigued with the electron and electricity, he persuaded his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, to give him special instruction and to allow him to audit a senior course. You could read about great scientists from now until the 22nd century and not find another instance where...
Mleczko's 73 assists are 23 more than her nearest competitor-sophomore winger Tammy Shewchuk. She is second in goals only to Shewchuk and has played excellent defense as well...