05 Dec 1999
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1999
Page
1
Sixth grade boys learn about babies and responsibility as no hands on course sponsored by a teen pregnancy prevention program. The brief note invites readers to see the story on page AA-3 and mentions Dickens Christmas in Skaneateles and a savings offer with coupons in the today's paper.
NASA has not received a signal from the Mars Polar Lander as a two hour contact window closed with no response. The $165 million mission faced growing chances of failure, mirroring a previous Mars probe setback. Officials expected a different antenna to be used in a new attempt this morning.
Federal agents arrested two anti government militia members over an alleged plan to blow up a large propane storage facility in Elk Grove California. The arrests were announced Saturday by federal officials.
Syracuse Newspapers invites readers to vote among 10 finalists who wish to bring family home to Central New York for the holidays. See letters on page DG for the full entries and details of the grand prize.
The Ula Newsboys Christmas Toy Fund sale is scheduled for Friday and Saturday with special editions of the Herald-Journal on Friday and the Post-Standard on Saturday. Proceeds support the annual toy fund. Corrections hotline provided for Tim Bunn at 470 2240.
Donna Duota profiles Syracuse University coach Marianna Freeman as she recalls eight crippling knee injuries among female players over 17 years. Experts say women face two to eight times higher risk of knee damage, threatening the rise of female athletes across gyms and fields.
Doctors cite four contributing factors for why women suffer more serious knee injuries than men. Differences in jumping and landing mechanics, muscle use patterns, hip structure, and knee notch size may increase anterior cruciate ligament stress. The description notes women rely more on quadriceps, have weaker leg muscles, wider pelvis, and a more open femur knee angle.
In 1995 Irish American congressman Jim Walsh traveled in President Kennedy’s Air Force One stateroom to Northern Ireland amid growing peace optimism. He reflects on his grandfather’s emigration from County Tipperary and the long road to the 1990s ceasefires, noting naive hopes for quick progress and the palpable desire for a government people could trust.
In Gail Sheehy’s Hillary’s Choice, Nancy Pietrafesa recalls Hillary Rodham Clinton as a close friend in Fayetteville New York during the late 1960s and early 1970s. David Rupert, a CBA graduate and Pietrafesa’s former suitor, is portrayed as Hillary’s first real love with vivid Vermont barn weekends and a controversial remark about marijuana.
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