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...began with boxing instruction at a neighborhood center and younger brother Michael as sparring partner. After dropping out of school in the tenth grade, he eventually joined the Marine Corps and its Camp Lejeune boxing squad. Despite a tendency to avoid training whenever possible, Spinks' brawling aggressiveness won him a spot on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team in Montreal. While Mom watched on a borrowed TV set in St. Louis, he and Michael, by then a fast-rising middleweight, became the first brothers to win gold medals in boxing simultaneously...
...lack of education are the two main problems West Virginia women must overcome, unlike many of their more affluent sisters in other regions. More than half of the Appalachian women live in rural areas; most of the 29 per cent who work outside the home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks. "It is dangerous...
...Yellow Pages gears itself to its audience in style and price as well as content. "We wrote it at a tenth to 12th grade reading level, which for many women is still too high," Daugherty says. Because Ms. Magazine and the Cabot Foundation underwrote the book, it may cost only 25 cents in places where welfare offices subsidize it further. Its readers' poverty dramatizes the need for such a book, Daugherty points...
...bench minor ensued, as did Phil Evans's tenth tally of the year to make it 4-1 with 1:19 left to play in the second period. Freshman Rick Benson and Jack Hughes garnered assists on the power play score, which left Harvard three goals down with a period to play...
...been a long day, and Darth Vader was looking for a party. He turned to the winged woman beside him, and said raspingly through his iron mask, "Let's check out the one on the tenth floor...