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...Federation presented not only each of the 12 lifters in the opening event, the 48-kg class, with a red carnation, but every woman in the audience too. At the first of the modern Olympics in Paris in 1896 there were no women competitors at all. In Sydney they number about 4,400, making up about 42 percent of competitors in 121 events. For the first time at these Games, women are taking part in modern pentathlon, taekwondo, water polo, hammer throw and pole vault as well as weight lifting...
...York, black students' test scores over the grades analyzed rose four percent. This number, Peterson said, is not and should not be under debate...
According to Peterson, the number of study participants was not sufficient to make a grade-by-grade analysis worthwhile, although he said he hopes it will be done in the future...
...obdurate, in responding to mounting evidence that its 15-in. ATX, ATXII and certain Wilderness AT tires were shredding at abnormally high rates. At least six months before Firestone launched the recall of 6.5 million defective tires in early August, it was aware of a steep rise in the number of warranty, damage and injury claims involving tread separations on those suspect models, according to confidential company reports released by congressional investigators. Firestone, which has argued that it didn't know of any pattern of problems until early August, said it didn't typically use such data to assess product...
...Army was not pleased. "The incidents detailed in this report of investigation are not in keeping with the Army's core values and should never have occurred," the Army said in a statement accompanying the report. "Even though this behavior appears to have been limited to a small number of soldiers, Army leaders at all levels must remain vigilant to ensure this behavior or the conditions that might foster this type of behavior do not reoccur...