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Timeout rooms are becoming the norm in Carroll County Schools, with a pilot plan to put them into more buildings.The proposed 1995-1996 budget proposal, yet to be approved by county commissioners, calls for $75,000 to hire instructional assistants to staff 10 such rooms: five in the county's elementary schools and five in the middle and high schools.A timeout room is an alternative to student suspensions or, in the case of elementary schools, students being sent to the principal's office.

I am not in the area, however my brother lives and works near Frisky's and through him, I have heard of their plight. My hope is that the board will see fit to allow them to continue their kind work. It is not the animals' fault that they end up in a sanctuary, but the laws that allow people to own exoctic pets in the first place! People make the problem and here you have people trying to clean up after that! I have worked in dog rescue for eight years and it's no small task, I assure you. We should not forget that we humans are not the only people on the planet and if we force the other animals into our homes, we need to be ready to step up and care for them till the end!

Regarding Susan Reimer 's recent column about Hugh Hefner's Canadian girlfriend, when the creator of "Frisky Friday," a Twitter meme featuring women in naughty poses, can be granted an O-1 visa for her "extraordinary ability," it demonstrates just what a disaster our immigration policy really is ("Hef's playmate hops across border," July 9). Considering today's high unemployment, it's shameful theU.S. State Departmentcontinues to create so many ways for outsiders to take American jobs.

Frisky's Wildlife and Primate Sanctuary, in Woodstock, relies on the kindness of strangers. Strangers bring injured and abandoned animals to the 4-acre site, where they are sheltered and nursed to health. And strangers volunteer at the nonprofit organization, which has no paid staff. Heather Wandell has been volunteering at Frisky's since her son, now 22, spent a summer volunteering there before his sophomore year at Mt. Hebron High School. He moved on to other interests, but Wandell was hooked.

They are the hottest thing on the catwalks for spring.The bold and the beautiful are already addicted to them. Now, catsuits are every woman's best bet yet.A catsuit is easily dressed up and down -- with jackets, skirts, sweaters or just accessories -- to create a multitude of looks for a variety of occasions.The economic advantages of basing your wardrobe around one garment are obvious. Finally -- but hardly incidentally -- a catsuit is as comfortable as your favorite sweat suit.Just like three years ago, when women said they could never wear leggings, plenty of women today get the shakes at the thought of slipping into a Lycra-based second skin.

Take red hot cayenne pepper -- a lot of it -- condense it into an oily liquid that clings to human skin, and put that liquid into a small canister that can spray a fine stream about 10 feet.It's not a recipe for a new sauce, but rather "pepper spray," a Mace-like spray that can disable someone for as long as 25 minutes. It is the newest tool in the Baltimore County police force's arsenal."You wouldn't want this on your taco," said Col. Leonard J. Supenski, head of the department's technical services bureau.

Despite six Red Sox home runs, their 10-4 win over the Orioles on Thursday night was so boring that Boston fans resorted to groping their significant others for the television cameras to stay entertained. Imagine what would have happened if Pedro Viola and the O’s hadn’t kept fans on their toes by serving up all those homers.

Nicholas and Alexandra were conked out on a warm floor yesterday, sleeping after a night's ordeal that began when they bolted past the gate of their Westminster-area home, ran into woods and fell through ice on a pond - leading to an improvised canine rescue by state police and a sheriff's deputy. The adventure of the black Labrador retrievers began about 8 p.m. Sunday, when they escaped as their owner Bill Schroeder was shoveling snow with his wife, Jane, and daughters Clare, 13, and Beth, 10, at their home in the Carriage Hill community off Gorsuch Road.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "Angela, Angela, the horses are here," a little boy screamed to his sister yesterday afternoon from the front porch of their house on Rodman Avenue.About 50 gawkers, a handful of reporters and photographers, and the president of Churchill Downs were waiting to greet Arazi, racing's trans-Atlantic super-horse, when he arrived -- apparently good condition -- at the historic track about 4 p.m. after a nine-hour flight from Paris.The diminutive 3-year-old colt -- the favorite in Saturday's Kentucky Derby -- was controlled by a ring bit attached to his fleece-lined halter as he stepped out of a van onto a carpet of black foam rubber that had been rolled out especially for the equine celebrity.

To: Keith Richards From: A Concerned Fan Subject: Suggested Beach Activities Whoops is right. You gave us a scare with your tree-climbing stunt in Fiji. Who knows what inspired you - a 62-year-old former heroin addict who some claim died years ago (leaving only your skeleton to walk the earth) - to scale, then fall, from a coconut tree after reportedly enjoying both vodka and rum. You suffered a mild concussion and underwent an operation to drain blood from your head, and that's almost never a fun beach activity.