I would like to share with all of you the recent experience I had with Novak Gunsight Company. After many years of saving my money to have custom 1911 work preformed by Novak's, I was finally able to send my gun off to realize my dream. When the gun was...
I've been reloading for more years than I care to remember, and have always been a bit puzzled about the number of times a case may be reused. Several authorities suggest a pistol case is good for five or six reloads, yet I have GI .45 ACP cases I've been...
Throughout much of the world, boys continue to outscore girls on standardised mathematics tests. For example, in most of the 57 countries that participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment PISA 2006, boys' performance was significantly higher than girls on the mathematics scale (see www.pisa.oecd.org). This fact alone can...
From Henry Repeating Arms Co. "On my honor...." Remember the pledge? Now, after so many years, savor the words. "I will do my best...." Reflect on them. How many pledges of "honor" does a kid ever get to make? What would life be like if boys never heard...
Holiday Gifts for $50 or less If you want to avoid the frustration of finding the perfect item for folks on your gift list, here's a little help. On these pages, we've put together a heartfelt harvest of guilt-free gifts--all for $50 or less--in this one-stop shopping guide...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What would happen if the holiday classic "Little Drummer Boy" had been set to some joyful hand-clapping and soulful drums to offset the "pa rum pum pum pum"? With drums performed by Derrick (d*loc) Walker and Keith Crouch, R&B vocalist Rahsaan Patterson applies his soulful vocals...
There's a reason Santa looks the way he does, and we know what it is. No, we're not talking about the red velvet suit, belt and black patent-leather boots (and, frankly, we're not sure we want to know why he wears those). What we are referring to is his size....
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Banks, one of the founders of the Eagle Academy for boys in New York City, remembers a proud moment. It involved Jonathan Jones, a ninth-grader who had bee labeled as a special-education student before he enrolled in the school. "He wasn't a bad...
Walter Smith has hinted he is preparing for a January clear-out of his Rangers squad. The club's chairman, Sir David Murray, revealed last week he would only allow his manager to spend in the transfer window in an emergency. But Smith is actually planning to reduce the size of his...
PARENTS, BEWARE! Tomorrow sees the release of Clint Eastwood's latest film, Changeling, a true-life drama about a single mother, played by Angelina Jolie, who comes home one evening in 1928 to find that her nine-year-old son has vanished. Five months later, the police present her with a different boy, and...
Before I launch into the many merits of mixed education, let's get the worst bits out of the way: swimming lessons, for pubescent schoolgirls, are a misery whose memory should be buried in a deep subconscious recess never to be retrieved, along with school rice pudding and, if I'm being...
PRIMARY CURRICULUM Parents are flocking to a new primary school in Sussex where pupils don't take tests A nine-year-old boy walks into class with a rock, which his granny brought from the Arizona desert. What does his teacher do? Tell him to put the rock...
A Thompson Family Christmas A one-off Christmas concert from Linda, Teddy right and Kamila Thompson performing together for the first time with special guests including Eddi Reader, Bert Jansch, Badly Drawn Boy, Kathryn Williams, Brendan Campbell, Bob Davenport and Chris Difford. The event is in support for...
Are girls better off in single-sex or co-educational schools? The answer to this old question seems to be swinging again in favour of girls-only schools. Vicky Tuck, the president of the Girls' School Association, is predicting a return to single-sex schooling on the grounds that girls learn differently from boys....
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. AP -- The grandmother of a young Arizona boy charged in the shooting deaths of his father and another man has told police that the 8-year-old boy was capable of the crimes. In documents released Wednesday by prosecutors, St. Johns police Chief Roy Melnick said...
ST. GEORGE -- Another teenager has been shot here with a blank loaded into a handgun. The 14-year-old boy shot himself with a blank that was loaded into a starter pistol used in races, St. George Police Sgt. James Van Fleet said Wednesday. "He...
State cross country championships Division-by division breakdown from the state cross country championships at Woodward Park in Fresno to be held Saturday:-- DIVISION I BOYS Race time: 8:30 a.m. Local teams, individuals: Amador Valley, College Park, Ben Eversole Castro Valley, Mike...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Little Stephon "Cinsear" Williams' Thanksgiving dinner will drip out of a plastic bag and run down a tube to enter his 39-pound body through a catheter in his chest. The chemotherapy that he had countered with defiant doses of verve finally packed a wallop...
LODI -- The Lodi High basketball team certainly did not have any opening-game jitters Wednesday night when it forced four turnovers in the contest's first 90 seconds and started the game with visiting Sierra on an 11-0 run on the way to a 64-41 nonleague boys basketball win at The...
Articles 2008-11-26
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