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The Under Armour brand is poised for continued growth with a soon-to-be-released football cleat that's expected to drive footwear sales, as well as plans to keep expanding into international markets, executives told stockholders Tuesday. Consumers who choose Under Armour over other sports apparel brands do so because the products help solve problems for athletes, said Kevin Plank, the company's chairman, president and CEO, during the company's annual stockholders' meeting at its South Baltimore headquarters.

PHILADELPHIA - The new policy requiring Philadelphia public school students to wear uniforms has the backing of the mayor, the endorsement of many parents and teachers, and enough wiggle room to allow reluctant high schoolers to come up with their own designs and colors. What it lacks is the informed opinion of psychologists who have studied uniforms and how they affect people. Some researchers caution that the plan to have different clothing schemes for different schools might lead to mean-spirited rivalries and even make targets of some students.

Don't play too much. Children on more than one team risk overuse injuries such as repetitive stress. Swelling with associated pain and limited motion means possible serious injury, which is especially true in children. Ice is the universal first aid for minor injuries such as sprains, strains and bruises. Regular ice packs, not chemical packs, should be all games and practices. Source: Temple University Hospital

Laura Ann Spivak, daughter of Wendy and Jerry Spivak of Roland Park, and Patrick Michael Ryan, son of Patrick and Violet Ryan of Melbourne, Australia, were married on August 26, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. Laura is a graduate of the Baltimore Friends School, University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University School of Medicine. She is now working at Oregon Health and Science University and the the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center. Patrick completed his education in Australia and is a Director of Information Technology in Portland.

The power of friends is so great that even parents who have stressed academic achievement can have their lessons undone if their children are not associating with like-minded friends, according to a new study."

Faced with the dilemma of the high number of girls in their early teens who are becoming pregnant, experts have come forward with a theory that these young mothers are responding to a pattern in human evolution that induces people growing up in extremely stressful circumstances to bear children early and often.The theory has received considerable attention and criticism.Drawing on sociobiology, the theory holds that teen-age mothers -- especially in America's inner cities -- are implementing a reproductive strategy that from an evolutionary viewpoint is a smart bet.Children who grow up in dangerous conditions, the theory holds, are primed to boost the chances of having their genes survive into the nextgeneration by choosing earlier sex, earlier motherhood and more children.

College gymnasticsFour members of the Towson State women's team (14-4) each won an event, as the Tigers defeated Temple University in Philadelphia, 187.55 to 182.00. Wendy Weaver was first on the beam for the third straight meet after missing the first half of the season with a shoulder injury, Janine Spezio won the vault, Gabby Linarducci won the floor exercise, Kim O'Keefe and Anne Sugden tied for first on the uneven bars. Sugden tied for second in the all-around.College swimmingMegan Malchak won the 200-yard breast stroke in 2 minutes, 22.72 seconds, and Mike Stambaugh placed third in the 100-yard backstroke to highlight performances by the University Maryland Baltimore County's women's and men's swimming teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at Cleveland State University.

"National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence After the Cold War" edited by Craig Eisendrath (Temple University Press, 232 pages, discounted at $34.50)A project supported by the Center for International Policy, this is a provocative collection of essays by 10 experienced authorities in the American intelligence community, including Roger Hilsman and Alfred W. McCoy. There is a foreword by Sen. Tom Harkin and a conclusionary chapter by the editor (a frequent reviewer for these pages). The vantage and general position of the essays are to insist that the United States' intelligence operations be far more attuned than they are today to a democratic vision of a world enjoying civil liberties and the rule of law.

NAO TAKASUGI, 87 Japanese-American politician Former California Assemblyman Nao Takasugi, who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87. Takasugi, a Republican from Oxnard, spent six years in the Legislature before he was termed out of office in 1998. He had been the mayor of Oxnard for 10 years before winning the Assembly seat. His son, Ronald Takasugi, said last week that his father died Thursday night of complications from a stroke.

NAO TAKASUGI, 87 Japanese-American politician Former California Assemblyman Nao Takasugi, who was sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II, has died. He was 87. Takasugi, a Republican from Oxnard, spent six years in the Legislature before he was termed out of office in 1998. He had been the mayor of Oxnard for 10 years before winning the Assembly seat. His son, Ronald Takasugi, said last week that his father died Thursday night of complications from a stroke.