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...SIROWIY, father of a 13-year-old Iraqi boy who underwent facial-reconstruction surgery in the U.S. for injuries caused by a U.S. cluster bomb, after he and his son visited Wal-Mart...
...popular, who's feminine, who's really weird. Parents: their faults and their inability to understand 13-year-olds. Sex: who's a "hottie," who's not and which girl in eighth grade--there is usually one--has taken the challenge and actually performed oral sex on a boy. Is it really sex? To girls in a competitive culture, it's less about passion than about proving to boys that they can pass the ultimate test of toughness. Though they like to show off their bodies and have an impact, mostly on one another, 13-year-old girls really...
...biggest boys in the seventh and eighth grades are setting a physical standard of masculinity--deep voices, big muscles--that creates anxiety in every other boy. "Am I strong enough to protect myself?" "Can I be a man if I'm not very athletic?" A 13-year-old boy hears the words gay and fag used in school every day and hopes they don't land on him. In the kitchen he looks down into his mother's eyes and thinks, Why is this woman giving me orders? I love her, but I'm bigger than she is. That perplexes...
DIED. CATHERINE WOOLLEY, 100, writer of 87 children's books including The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy and the Gus the Ghost series; in Truro, Mass. So prolific that her publisher advised her to take an occasional pseudonym, she often used her grandmother's name, Jane Thayer...
...life growing up in California has continually been shaped by the fact that I'm a Muslim Pakistani American. I'm faced with the same day-to-day challenges as any other boy my age, but the way I meet them is very different because of my culture and religion. The way I choose to live my life often seems unusual to my peers, and as a result, my principles are sometimes questioned...