Playoff Week Boosts NFL Prep for Divisional Round
A look at how NFL teams sharpen for the divisional round with emphasis on coaching depth and strategic prep as the weekend games approach. The piece contrasts the VIP treatment of Elian Gonzalez with the harsher realities faced by unaccompanied migrant children in the United States.
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NFL
Elian Gonzalez
United States
Freedom March set for noon Saturday downtown Odessa
A Freedom March will begin at noon Saturday at the Martin Luther King Jr Center near Second Street and Grant Avenue. The parade proceeds east on Second Street to Dixie Boulevard, south on Dixie to Murphy Street, then east on Murphy to Woodson Park, with lineup at 11:30 a.m. Sponsored by the Black Cultural Council of Odessa and the Odessa Council for the Arts and Humanities.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Center
Second Street
Grant Avenue
Dixie Boulevard
Dixie
Murphy Street
Murphy
Woodson Park
Black Cultural Council of
Odessa
Odessa Council For the Arts and Humanities
Odessa sees second rise in area sales tax rebates
Odessa Finance Director James Zentner calls January rebate gains encouraging but not a trend yet as the city posts a 14.37 percent year over year increase to 887 426 dollars for November 1999 sales. Midland follows with an 11.74 percent jump to 892 039 dollars as the comptroller reports a longer tax collection period and concerted effort improving revenues.
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Odessa
West Texas
Odessa Finance
James Zentner
Odessa Development Corp
Zentner
Comptroller’s
Midland
Midland Finance
Troy Gifford
Comptroller
Air quality concerns over Huntsman Polymers flare incident
Company documents show 11 000 pounds of butadiene and 1 400 pounds of benzene sent to the flare after an electrical outage, with 31 089 pounds of ethylene and 5 430 pounds of propylene also flared. TXU Odessa disputes an outage, winds hinder monitor effectiveness, and a second station is planned to better assess emissions and impact.
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Mike Hagan
Region 7
TNRCC
South Odessa
Hays Elementary
Huntsman Polymers
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
TXU
Odessa
Terry Blair
Blair
Huntsman
Hays
Ector County
Roy Gentry
Bethel Baptist Church
Hagan
Youth killer Nathaniel Abraham to be freed at 21
In Pontiac Michigan Nathaniel Abraham once 11 shot a stranger and faced adult murder charges under a 1997 law. A judge spared life imprisonment sending him to juvenile detention until age 21. The decision cited reform prospects and urged more juvenile resources.
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Pontiac, Mich
U.S
Eugene Moore
Michigan
Nathaniel Abraham
Moore
Nathaniel
Ronnie Greene Jr
Pontiac
Daniel Bagdade
Ee Abraham
Oakland County
Mich
Ronnie Green Jr
Abraham
Vatican to consider Martin Luther King Jr as martyr for jubilee
American Catholic bishops urged the Vatican to name Rev. Martin Luther King Jr a martyr for the Christian faith. King, a Baptist minister assassinated in 1968, is among US nominees for a 20th century martyrs group to be honored by Pope John Paul II on May 7 in Rome during Jubilee 2000. Christine King Farris called the idea humbling.
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Boston
Vatican
Martin Luther King Jr
Boston Globe
King
el Salvador
John Paul II
Rome
Vatican Commission
Christine King Farris
Coretta Scott King
Coretta King
Atlanta
Paul Henderson
U.S
Illinois State Capitol
Springfield
Ill
Antisocial behavior linked to low cortisol in boys
Chicago researchers report that aggressive boys aged 7 to 12 show lower salivary cortisol, suggesting a biological basis for antisocial behavior. The study in Archives of General Psychiatry notes reduced fear response may hinder counseling. Led by Keith McBurnett, the team cautions about limits of traditional treatments.
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Chicago
Archives of General Psychiatry
Keith McBurnett
University of Chicago Medical School
McBurnett
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