Word: burbank
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Eighth grade was the worst year of my life," says Ashley Power, 15, whose quick wit and flawless looks make it tough to imagine her as anything less than the most popular girl in school. But when she switched to a new junior high in Burbank, Calif., two years ago, the class cliques promptly brushed her off, forcing her to turn to the Web to make friends. The result: goosehead.com a site she created that is chock full of games, music downloads and original comedy in streaming video. "I want to make Goosehead a teen-entertainment network," says Power, whose...
...really wishing I could watch the muddy brown water of the 'mighty Miss' wash over my toes again." PAM STOLTZFUS Burbank, Calif...
...game hardly mattered. Playoff berths weren't at stake. It was just an off-season scrimmage for a bunch of preteen hockey nuts, hoping, perhaps, to add some power to their slapshots. On July 5, from the stands of the Burbank Ice Arena, in Reading, Mass., Thomas Junta watched his 10-year-old son shoot the puck. The kid wasn't faring well. Though contact was forbidden, an elbow nearly smashed his nose. With play getting rougher, Junta, 42, a truck driver, called down to the only adult on the ice, Michael Costin, demanding that he intervene. Costin, whose three...
...David M. Shapiro of Eliot House; Peter Ciganik, David E. Landau, Kevin S. Schwartz, Shanyah A. Wang and Dorothy Weiss of Kirkland House; Michael A. Levin of Leverett House; Margaret S. Soper of Lowell House; Paola Y. Tartakoff of Mather House; Nadarajan Chetty of Pforzheimer House; Emma R. Burbank-Schmitt and Davesh Maulik of Quincy House; Jennifer Belli and Catherine M. Taylor of Winthrop House...
...rare and unique ways on New Year's Eve. We didn't blow ourselves up; we didn't melt down; and we're not picking our way through nuclear rubble. Mankind came safely barreling through a crossroads in time. In doing so, we surprised even ourselves. DAN HOLM Burbank, Calif...