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When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of the city. " But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and left him outside the city. When they had brought them outside, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed. " l8And Lot said to them, "Oh, no, my lords; 19your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die. 20Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one? —and my life will be saved!" 2lHe said to him, "Very well, I grant you this favor too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there. " Therefore the city was called Zoar. The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven; 2Sand he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt®.

Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD; 28and he looked down toward

Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Saul spoke with his son Jonathan and with all his ser-A^ vants about killing David. But Saul's son Jonathan took great delight in David. 2Jonathan told David, "My father Saul is trying to kill you; therefore be on guard tomorrow morning; stay in a secret place and hide yourself. 3l will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; if I learn anything I will tell you. " jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul, saying to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you; sfor he took his life in his hand when he attacked the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against an innocent person by killing David without cause?" Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, " As • the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death. " 780 Jonathan called David and related all these things to him. Jonathan then brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.

Again there was war, and David went out to fight the Philistines. He launched a heavy attack on them, so that they fled before him. 9Then an evil spirit from the LORD came up-on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing music. Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.

Saul sent messengers to David's house to keep watch over him, planning to kill him in the morning. David's wife Michal told him, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed. " 12So Michal let David down through the window; he fled away and escaped.

NEW YORK—When it finally happened on a balmy Sunday evening, when Andy Roddick won his first Grand Slam title that everybody had seen coming except, perhaps, himself, he bent over and sobbed into his hands.

He was down two sets and a match point in the semifinals, and he found a way—the fifth time this year he has faced match points and come back to win.2 In the final, with the French Open champion spoiling for getting back into the match, he trailed Juan Carlos Ferrero 2-1 in a second-set tiebreaker. 3 He responded by winning the last six points.

Roddick bludgeoned" a weary Ferrero in the U. S. Open final 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-3. One year after the final triumph of Pete Sampras5 here at the National Tennis Center, American tennis has another ascendant young champion.

"I still don't believe that I've won the U. S. Open," Roddick said later. "It's so farfetched for me. I've watched so many, like, Grand Slam finals when people win and their reaction. There was just a million thoughts going through my head.

"But I'm baffled by how calm I felt out there, how easy. I almost didn't feel anything. I was just kind of going through the motions. "

The new world No. 2 reached three Grand Slam semifinals this year, some-thing no other man on tour can say. He has now won 19 straight matches. His collaboration with new coach Brad Gilbert has produced a gaudy record of 37-2. And Gilbert's star has risen to the extent that he commanded his own press conference7 following Roddick's.

"The guy's got unbelievable talent," Gilbert said. " It was a great opportunity

working with him."

Before the match, five-time U. S. Open champion Jimmy Connors offered this assessment of Roddick; "He's been out on the Tour for a number of years. His experience, certainly, has entered into it. Three years worth of experience is huge at a young age. His abilities and his knowledge for playing big points now, it seems to me to be a lot different. He's not as overanxious at times. He's able to stay in there, to work the point a little bit more.

"To come from two sets down, match point (against Nalbandian). If he's the athlete, the competitor and has the heart that I think he has, that's what you live for, to be in position like that, to turn it around and come back. That's what the game's all about. "

Men's tennis, thought to be losing its marquee8 power with the retirement of Pete Sampras and the aging of Andre Agassi', has been well served by in an infusion of youth. In June, Ferrero won his first Grand Slam title at the French Open. In July, it was Roger Federer breaking through at Wimbledon. And now Roddick, at his best.

Their age—Ferrero is 23, Federer 22 and Roddick 21—suggests the prospects for a spirited rivalry are good. There have been eight different winners of the last eight men's Grand Slams. That streak seems certain to end next year.

"Yeah, I don't see eight different winners winning the next eight Slams, for sure," Roddick said. It's certainly shaping up to be a really good group, with Roger winning and Juan Carlos winning, now Roddick becoming No. 1.

"We're all kind of close. I'm pumped to be a part of it. " When Roddick sat down for his post-match interview, he exhaled long and loud. "No more. ' What's it feel like to be the future of American tennis?' crap!" he said. " No more. "

Botanists try to distinguish among plants introduced by human agency by calling those which grew only when man tends them, "cultivated"; those which lingermore or less precariously after cultivation, "escaped"; and those which now go it completely alone, "adventitious" . But it is sometimes impossible to distinguish sharply between the last two because there are some which are certainly almost, though not quite, capable of going it alone.

Perhaps, the most familiar eastern example is the orange day lily which not only lingers but spreads for generations about the site of an abandoned house; perhaps the most conspicuous desert example is the straggling shrub with gaudy yellow and red blossoms, now so common in thickly inhabited portions of southern Arizona that one hardly knows whether to call it cultivated, escaped, or adventitious. In any event, a slow-motion movie of the United States since the sixteenth century would show the vegetative as well as the human population ebbing and flowing — mostly flowing — in all directions.

Nearly everywhere he goes man intentionally carried with him such directly useful plants and animals as can be persuaded to grow in whatever new country he is colonizing: cattle, sheep, horses, Indian corn, cotton, etc. Sometimes he unknowingly brings animals which had once lived there but subsequently became extinct, as he did when he brought the horse to America. To the southwestern deserts he brought even the camel, which is said to have survived there as an escapee for forty years or more. The organisms which go along with him as stowaways are far more numerous. Wherever one of his ships lands, rats are pretty sure to go ashore with him. The dandelion follows him into almost every temperate climate, the cock-roach into the tropic and the arctic as well.

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Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in th thirteenth century it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if h heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent.

All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation here. What was missing was good mothering, in the first year of life especially; the ca pacity to survive is seriously affected.

Today no such drastic deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for that is that the mother is insensitive to the cues and signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to mop up Language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems, when children learn more readily. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes, and they might nev¬er be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, bu; finds the process slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.

Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed sequence and at a con¬stant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns oul to be of high IQ (Intelligence Quotient). At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; al eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.

Recent evidence suggests that all infants are born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man' s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy bear with the sound pattern"ted-dy-bear" . And even more incredible is the young brain' s ability to pick out an order in lan-guage from the hubbub of sound around him, to analyses, to combine and recombine the parts rf a language in novel ways.

But speech has to be triggered, and this depends on interaction between the mother and he child where the mother recognizes the cues and signals in the child' s babbling, clinging, ;rasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals lulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signal, iensitivity to the child' s non-verbal cues is essential to the growth and development of language.

The majority of Britain's medal hopefuls heading to the Sydney Olympics next month have prepared themselves both mentally and physically for an assault in their chosen event.2 Not so Simon Lessing.

The South-African born triathlete3, Lessing, who chose to compete for his maternal country4 when he turned 18, must psyche himself up5 for a gruel-ling6 combination of a 1. 5km swim followed by a 40km cycle ride and rounded off with a 10km run-all three events completed in around one hour and 45 minutes.

"Simon always has a hard time finding someone to train with him," says his wife Lisa. "It's not that no one will train with him, it is just difficult to find someone who can push him to his limits. "

That is certainly not an understatement when you look back at Lessing's re-cord.

He has won 13 gold medals in major events over the past four years and that impressive run included three World Championships, to add to the title he first won back in 1992.

His current form makes him one of Britain's best prospects for gold in Sydney, but Lessing is not making any bold predictions.

" I've been very consistent in the last two years in my racing. Because of that I feel fairly confident that I have the capability of doing really well," he said.

"Triathlon is pretty much a summer sport, and athletes are used to racing in the heat," he said.

"There aren't too many races now that are in a cold climate, so with the Olympics being in the Australian spring, the likelihood of it being fairly cold is quite high. "

As an 1 8-year-old it was a huge eye-opener as I had never left isolated7 South Africa before," he said.

" It was also an opportunity because at the time South Africa was banned from8 competing in international sport and moving to England gave me the chance to pursue9 an international sporting career under the British flag. "

Despite him playing down his prospects in Sydney, Lessing could suddenly find himself thrown into the spotlight should he capture the gold medal. 10

He said, "It is very unrealistic to say I'm going to win this medal or that. There are a lot of outside factors than can affect results. "

"There are five or six guys who have a chance. A lot can go right and a lot can go wrong. It is one key race, not a series like the World Cup. We are focusing on a one hour 45 minute effort. "

Lessing is also quick to point out that he is not the only Briton" with a chance of a medal in the triathlon.

"If you look at it realistically, the Brits have been dominant since 1992," said Lessing. " Great Britain has had the men's world champion more than any other country. "

He said, "On a given day luck always plays a part and circumstances which are out of your hands can play a role as well. "

" You can get a flat tyre and your race is over right there and then. If someone surpasses others in the cycling, you're going to have to chase12 , because if you don't chase there's a risk they can get away. "

" I had put in a fair bit of effort the last lap to create that gap," said Lessing afterwards. "When he came by, with 500 metres left, I couldn't go with him. And that is life. "

But come September and Sydney, few would expect him to make the same mistake again.

Being Famous

Being Famous is the first novel from Lee Gray, lead guitaris for the world-famous1 rock band, The Rumor. Gray tells th< story of his own real-life climb to fame through a fictional character named Ringo.

The tale2 begins with Ringo in high school—a shy, unpopular teenager with bad grades in everything except art and music. Ringo leaves school and gets a job cleaning toilets and making tea in a recording studio3, 10 hoping that the producers4 who work there will one day notice his music, follow Ringo's story as he is rejected by five different record ompanies, breaks up with his girlfriend three times, and loses numerous. Eventually5 Ringo, penniless6 and heartbroken, gets a recording deal7 rith a big record company. He goes on a world tour with his band, and ecomes very successful before returning to his hometown, rich and imous. The story describes the people Ringo meets and the humorous situations he finds himself in—from his early days making tea in the xording studio to his travels on the road with his band.

nyone who has ever lost a love, lost a job, or lost all hope, but can still tugh about it will enjoy this funny, interesting, and true story!

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Elkin Ocean

Elkin Ocean is the third book in Theresa Stevens' Mythical Forest series. This volume8 follows the story of a group of elf'-like people called Elkins who live in a Magic Forest. The plot centers around a courageous young Elkin named Ocean, who is born with the ability to sense the forces of evil10 that attack the forest. tie day after his seventeenth birthday, the forest elders11 take Ocean high to the mountains of the forest to teach him how to use his magical )wers. As he grows up in the mountains with his elders, he struggles to :cept his destiny as a leader in the forest. Eventually, he faces his fears, ids the strength to fight the dark forces, and saves the Elkin people. He rercomes evil, and wins the love of Portia,12 the Elkin king's daughter.

lis is a wonderful novel full of magic, adventure, and courage. It is also story of the struggle all young people face as they grow from children to adults, and learn to accept life's responsibilities. A book for people of ages!

Henry Ford, the famous U. S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, "The business of America is business. " By this he meant that the U. S. way of life is based on the values of the business world.

Few would argue with Ford's statement. A brief glimpse at a daily newspaper vividly shows how much people in the United States think about business. For example , nearly every newspaper has a business section, in which the deals and projects, finances and management, stock prices and labor problem of corporations are reported daily. In addition , business news can appear in every other section. Most national news has an important financial aspect to it. Welfare, foreign aid , the federal budget , and the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank are all heavily affected by business. Moreover, business news appears in some of the unlikeliest places. The world of arts and entertainment is often referred to as "the entertainment industry" or "show business. "

The positive side of Henry Ford's statement can be seen in the prosperity that business has brought to U. S. life. One of the most important reasons so many people from all over the world come to live in the United States is the dream because of a better job. Jobs are produced in abundance ( ^ M $L ) because the U. S. economic system is driven by competition. People believe that this system creates more wealth , more jobs , and a materially better way of life.

The negative side of Henry Ford's statement, however, can be seen when the world business is taken to mean big business. And the term big business referring to the biggest companies, is seen in opposition to labor. Throughout U. S. history working people have had to fight hard for higher wages , better working conditions , and the fight to form unions. Today , many of the old labor disputes are over, but there is still some employee anxiety. Downsizing — the laying off of thousands of workers to keep expenses low and profits high -creates feelings of insecurity for many.

These can be divided into preformed or passive defense mechanisms and inducible or active systems. Passive plant defense comprises physical and chemical barriers that prevent entry of pathogens, such as bacteria, or render tissues uneatable or toxic to the invader. The external surfaces of plants, in addition to being covered by an epidermis and a waxy surface, often carry long hairs known as trichomes. Other trichomes are sticky and glandular and effectively trap and immobilize insects.

If the physical barriers of the plant are breached, then preformed chemicals may inhibit or kill the intruder, and plant tissues contain a diverse array of toxic or potentially toxic substances, such as resins, tannins, glycosides, and alkaloids, many of which are highly effective deterrents to insects that feed on plants. The success of the Colorado beetle in infesting potatoes, for example, seems to be correlated with its high tolerance to alkaloids that normally repel potential pests. Other possible chemical defenses, while not directly toxic to the parasite, may inhibit some essential step in the establishment of a parasitic relationship. For example, glycoprotein’s in plant cell walls may inactivate enzymes (j8|) that degrade cell walls. These enzymes are often produced by bacteria and fungi.

Active plant defense mechanisms are comparable to the immune system of vertebrate animals, although the cellular and molecular bases are fundamentally different. Both, however, are triggered in reaction to intrusion, implying that the host has some means of recognizing the presence of a foreign organism. The most dramatic example of an inducible plant defense reaction is the hypersensitive response. In the hypersensitive response, cells undergo rapid necrosis—that is, they become diseased and die—after being penetrated by a parasite; the parasite itself subsequently ceases to grow and is therefore restricted to one or a few cells around the entry site. Several theories have been put forward to explain the basis of hypersensitive resistance.