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Word: boying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sure that "Ask Beth's" little talk reassured Venus. In a couple of weeks, she'll get this boy to notice her during homeroom. By fifth period, he'll have dropped her for some blonde in his gym class...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Please Don't Ask Beth | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...College. Covenant House officials say they paid Kite's board at the college, gave him pocket money and bought him a computer. They also say a Covenant House contact in upstate New York provided Kite with papers that allowed him to take the identity of Tim Warner, a young boy who died of leukemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleak Days for Covenant House | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...bloody scene was bad enough: six people were wounded; two, a 17-year-old and a boy of four, lay dead, cut down by automatic gunfire in Garden Grove, Calif. But what infuriated Ralph Rodriguez, a cousin of the dead child's, was that not one witness was willing to tell police what everyone knew: the slaughter was a revenge killing by the 5th Street gang from nearby Santa Ana, where Rodriguez lives. "I started screaming, and I made people talk to the police," he recalls. "I knew everybody they named as the shooters. I knew all their families." Rodriguez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting The Code of Silence | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...more than we expected of him," said his father, Joseph W. Sharp of Covington. He described Sharp as "an all-around boy" who studied hard, but "no more than any normal person would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologist Named Head of MIT | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

...Seattle's E.B. ("Jiggs") Clark, 72, the impetus to become computer literate came from a seven-year-old boy he saw hacking away at a desktop machine in a computer store. "I asked, 'How did you learn how to work it?' He turned to me and said, 'What are you, some kind of dummy?' " Determined not to be left behind, Clark acquired an Apple IIc and plunged into the world of telecommunications. Now he uses his computer and modem to stay in touch with similarly equipped seniors all over the U.S. Says he: "If I'm immobilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Whiz Kids with White Hair | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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