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Everyone dreams of making it big, of one day holding that championship trophy, of being the best. Senior Matt Farbotko has his shot and may be on his way to the big show. The tight end signed a one-year contract with the Indianapolis Colts last weekend after a three-day minicamp. Farbotko first received notice the Colts were interested in his potential on NFL draft day, when they offered him a tryout to include meetings, orientations, and physical, drug, and flexibility tests beginning last Thursday. After a long weekend of learning everything from plays to lingo, Farbotko...
...Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Paul D. Horowitz ’65—who can be reached on the call sign W1HFA—says that many hams receive negative feedback from neighbors concerning setting up antennas or causing interference to appliances...
...didn’t really know what to expect,” Farbotko said. “I was skeptical. But now that I see that they’re excited about how I played in camp. They’re excited to have me on, enough to sign me. I feel like they’re at least going to give me a fair shot...
...Kids are getting coached as well. At Phillips Academy, Gates talked to students in a program called AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), a daily class that teaches them how to how to study, read and think more effectively. Sixty freshman have signed a contract to take the class, which targets middling students, those "on the edge of being successful," explains Euel Bunton, principal of Phillips. While results of the program aren't yet in, attendance of AVID students is 90% - a promising sign in a school where chronic truancy has been a problem...
...Even in Guatemala, Latin America's most Protestant nation, there are signs that the more charismatic approach of the Catholic Church can reverse the trend. The number of Guatemalan Protestants stopped growing at the start of the decade and now numbers between 33% and 40%, according to Dr. Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Interim Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas. Every nation in this once homogenously Catholic continent has a bedrock of Catholic support that will never be eroded, and the numbers presented in Brazil last week may be a sign that those willing to choose...