Hopeful of defending her national title in girls cutting, Radomske needed to have a pretty decent score to not only make the cut, but also stay within reach of national leader, Mckenzie Mullins of Texas, who sits on top of the board with 440. While the average standings won t change for the better for Radomske after this afternoon, she sits in 22nd place with 416. Pratt, who competes this morning in the final performance of the second round in goat tying, is also 14th in the pole pending...

Wakkerstroom - An Mpumalanga farmer, faced with the grim task of shooting 400 of his sheep that had been badly burnt in a veld fire, had to ask around for extra bullets. Landman said the fire, which started at an informal settlement near Wakkerstroom, had been fanned by a strong wind. She was looking after their five-month-old baby and two-year-old toddler, while her husband helped fight the flames. Burgers said he had to shoot 280 ewes that were badly burnt by the flames, but were still alive.

In Africa, experts say the deaths of thousands of infants each year from low body temperature, or hypothermia, pneumonia and other illnesses that can strike a child within days of delivery. So skin-to-skin contact can help that baby maintain its body heat and not burn off calories trying to keep warm which is really dangerous for the low birth-weight infant. One way thats gaining in popularity in the southern African country of Malawi is keeping a child close to the chest of the mother and...

Fortunately for her, she was not wearing this outfit in the dream, or I would have had to point out to her VERY sternly that she is way too lovely a lady to be wearing clothes that the owner of Forever 21 has tacked up onto his wall next to a photo of him counting his money and a sign that says, "SUCKERS!" And then she might not have let me eat the cupcake. But these are bad! Unnecessary and bad! Unnecessary and bad and altogether too much like 18th century knee breeches she's dug up...

Or, rather, the one that she commissioned for framing after rejecting the standard-issue shot -- with spectacles and a frown from Lebanon High School's 1940 yearbook. And finally, copies of the program from her funeral service on March 21 of this year -- with a picture of Polly Ellis wearing glasses but smiling this time. Sometimes these reunions -- at which surviving members of the class of 1940 have been gathering every summer for as long as any of them can remember -- seemed to give...