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LOS ANGELES -- It didn't take long for Jerry Jones, the enthusiastic owner of the Dallas Cowboys, to start bragging.In the giddy moments Sunday night after the Cowboys' 52-17 rout of the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, Jones talked about how young the team is."We're looking forward to seeing what they're able to play like when they get a little experience under their belts," he said.He repeated that theme at a news conference yesterday. The team owners don't usually show up at the news conferences the day after the Super Bowl, but Jones isn't your average owner.

Q: My 21-month-old son was born with undescended testicles. What is the chance his testicle will come down on its own?A: A testicle which hasn't made its way into the scrotum by the time a child is 1 or 2 years old is unlikely to "come down" on its own. We can surmise this from studies which have been done comparing the number of undescended testicles in groups of male infants, boys and young men.Two or three out of 10 boys born prematurely have undescended testicles...

The sounds of Franz Liszt's "Liebestraum" gently wafted across the room as 60 Parole Elementary School students strolled into the school's dining hall, transformed momentarily into a fine dining establishment.Well, maybe strolled isn't quite the correct word. After all, these were fifth-graders. Actually, they made more of a mad -- yesterday before sitting down for their invitation-only, formal luncheon and social."We wanted the kids to feel special," said Principal Charles Bowers. "We wanted them to have a chance to get dressed up and experience what it's like dining in a fine restaurant."

New York -- Peter Jennings, ABC anchor, doesn't take kindly to the idea that he, a journalist, might be perceived as performing a teaching-preaching role normally reserved for a cleric. This, even as Mr. Jennings prepares to advance the news business' growing preoccupation with moral and ethical issues in four hours of ABC specials on the subjects of prejudice and rape.The three specials are: Saturday's 90-minute "Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions" (11:30 a.m. EDT); an hourlong "Peter Jennings Reporting: Men, Sex and Rape" (May 5)

New York -- Peter Jennings, ABC anchor, doesn't take kindly to the idea that he, a journalist, might be perceived as performing a teaching-preaching role normally reserved for a cleric.This, even as Mr. Jennings prepares to advance the news business' growing preoccupation with moral and ethical issues in four hours of ABC specials on the subjects of prejudice and rape.The three specials are: Saturday's 90-minute "Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions" (11:30 a.m. EDT); an hourlong "Peter Jennings Reporting: Men, Sex and Rape" (May 5)

Members of Baltimore's tightly woven Lithuanian community gathered at St. Alphonsus Church yesterday to say goodbye to one of their own, Vitalis V. Pilius, who was slain last week after he was abducted from a downtown parking garage during a robbery.Before the hourlong service, relatives and friends embraced outside the West Saratoga Street church.Some spoke with sadness about the death of "Vito," a father of four young boys, soccer coach and support technician for Hewlett-Packard Co. Others were outraged about at the slaying, for which two teen-agers have been arrested.

WESTMINSTER -- Clarence Yinger, the former president of the Gamber Volunteer Fire Companywho is serving a 38-year sentence for sexually assaulting young boys, is set to ask a Carroll County judge today to let him out of jail.In court records, Yinger claims his sentence should be reduced or revised because he is "no longer a danger to society or adolescent males."Yinger, 41, filed the motion to have his sentence modified in October 1989, one month after he was sentenced to 88 years in prison with 50 years suspended.

It wasn't until after Felicia Smith had chased the man down and helped pry her screaming son from his grip that she realized how close she had come to losing her 3-year-old boy."I thank God because he spared my child," Mrs. Smith said yesterday. "If [the man] had had a car, he would have been gone."Instead, Bruce Green, 29, of the 3900 block of Dudley Avenue, was being held last night on charges of kidnapping and assault at the Eastern District lockup. Bail was set by a Baltimore District Court commissioner at $7,000, and he is scheduled for a bail review hearing today, police said.

The squeegee kid says he was was washing car windshields the other day when a man approached and asked if he wanted to make some "big money."The boy, 12, who lives in a West Baltimore public-housing development, had seen the man before in the courtyard of the project and knew what the offer involved -- joining a drug organization."

TWO CONCERTS of music showing the black experience are planned at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall this month. The first is the Boys Choir of Harlem singing a mixed program including the works of Adolphus Hailstork and Duke Ellington and the second honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the Baltimore premiere of Hannibal Peterson's "African Portraits."Singing at 2 p.m. Saturday are 35 members of the Boys Choir of Harlem, one of the busiest choral groups in the country. Members, who are 10 to 18, are part of a larger choir of 150. They have their own school where they must keep a B average, sing everything form rock to baroque, spend most weekends on the road and will be subjects of a future full-length movie.