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...Games. The International Olympic Committee can't resist adding new events to the already packed schedule. In Atlanta there were 273 medal events on the books, but in Sydney the number has grown to 300 (including such events as trampoline and modern pentathlon). The better part of that growth, though, reflects a commendable effort at involving more women in the Games. Twenty-one women's events including weight lifting, water polo and Taekwondo have been added for Sydney...
Harry's story speaks first and foremost to a feeling most of us swoon at: the feeling of being deliberately, carefully, and specially chosen. Though he hadn't known it, Harry was destined to be a wizard--he had the mark of greatness on him. It just took someone with the right eyes...
...began simply enough. After years of life in a Muggle (non-wizard) family, being made to feel quite uninteresting and ordinary, Harry received a mysterious letter admitting him to the study of high magic at Hogwarts, a kind of boarding school. Though surprised at his own admission, once at Hogwarts, Harry learned that other kids--the legacies--have looked forward to coming their whole lives...
...though the neighbors in White Rock, N.M., just down the road from Los Alamos, put out flags last Wednesday and welcomed Lee home with a big backyard party on Barcelona Avenue, the man at the center of the wreckage still has a lot of explaining to do. Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent of 400,000 pages of classified data about the U.S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes...
...September usually sees a bump in the reported cases of head lice as kids go back to school. Despite the common misconception that lice can leap tall buildings, like fleas, they're actually crablike crawlers, moving from scalp to scalp. Though lice don't usually transmit disease, they can cause a lot of discomfort, embarrassment and missed school days, so parents should deal with head lice the moment they become aware of an infestation...