Word: boying
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Crime is the one thing Japan was always happy to admit was best made in America. But a teen killing spree is starting to give the lie to the idea that Japan is preternaturally immune from violence. Last week a 15-year-old boy on southern Japan's Kyushu Island slipped into a neighbor's house after dark and attacked six slumbering family members with a knife one by one, killing three. "Oh, no, not again," said Mikiko Takahashi, 46, the mother of two boys. "Our society must be out of order...
...attacked his teammates with a baseball bat in June, then biked home and fatally bludgeoned his mother. The month before, a teen broke into a house and knifed a woman to death because, he told police, "I wanted to experience killing." The same month, a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus, forced the driver into a 19-hr. expressway odyssey and killed a passenger along the way. Also in May another teen was accused of severely beating a sleeping commuter-train passenger with a hammer...
...lady named Marianne who had one thing missing from her life. She wanted a baby. But since Marianne didn't have a husband, she went to a doctor, who gave her seeds from a kind and generous man called a donor. Nine months later, out popped a beautiful baby boy named...
...city, the food, the smells. For them, it was two parts home ("It's so nice," Rae said amid a throng of Koreans on a street. "For once, people are staring at Kel and Jake instead of me") and three parts I'm-never-coming-here-again (a teenage boy ate dinner at his foster parents' home only to discover in mid-bite that they raise dogs for meat...
...town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking up a conversation about the weather and gardens and how fast summer goes by. When it comes my time to go, I imagine doing it in the company of Midwestern Lutheran women who will hold my hand at the end and say, "Boy, they say we're supposed to get two to three inches of rain tonight and we sure could use it but I don't know." And my dying words will be, "Yeah, it actually looks like it's clearing up some...