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Scholastic Update archives from April 1996
Cristina Teuscher: making a splash. (teenage athlete)(Eyes on the Prize)(Cover Story)
April 12, 1996... Nine stories up in an Indianapolis hose; room, a stack of schoolbooks sit on a desk, awaiting Cristina Teuscher's attention. You don't maintain a 98 average by leaving your schoolwork at home, even for the Olympic trials. Except that this is one...
Fernando Vargas: fists of gold. (welterweight amateur boxer)(Eyes on the Prize)(Cover Story)
April 12, 1996... Inside the ring is easy. When 18-year-old boxer Fernando Vargas steps through the ropes to I meet an opponent, he's I smooth and confident, a blur of power and speed. Hard lefts followed by an even harder right. Dancing out of the path of his...
Not just a game.(sports, fame and academics)
April 12, 1996... MONEY + FAME = HERO?
Turn on the TV and flip to any channel. Sooner or later you'll come across commercials featuring famous athletes selling everything from antiperspirant and underwear to hamburgers and sneakers. Sports stars like Michael...
Your vote is in!(teenager survey on the 1996 presidential campaign)
April 12, 1996... We asked--and you answered. In our February 9 issue, we gave you a chance to sound off on the Presidential election in our Campaing '96 opinion poll. More than 3,500 UPDATE readers responded. For Presidential nominees, you picked Democrat Bill...
Uneasy neighbors.(United States and Cuba)
April 12, 1996... On February 25, three small planes took off from an airport near Miami, Florida, and headed due south. An hour later the planes approached the island nation of Cuba, one of the last Communist strongholds in the world.
Within moments, Cuban...
The Pentagon Papers.(United States Department of Defense and freedom of the press)
April 12, 1996... Sometime in March of 1971, New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan, just back from three years of covering the Vietnam War, got a hold of the most important manuscript he had ever possessed. There were 7,000 pages bound in . blue cardboard into 47...