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...August 4, the entire board of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), the Chinese oil company that had tried to make history by buying Unocal, the eighth-largest oil company in the U.S., gathered at its Beijing headquarters for a postmortem. Thirty-six hours earlier, the company's CEO, Fu Chengyu, had made it official: after fencing with Chevron, the U.S.-based "super major'' oil company, for the right to buy Unocal and its extensive oil and gas assets in Asia, CNOOC was giving up the fight. The Chinese firm had been spooked both by political opposition...
...used to it. It doesn't bother me now. But I don't want any special attention drawn to me. I'll try to blend in as much as I can. I have to say I am a little nervous--the freshmen that I'll be with were eighth-graders when I graduated from high school...
...sitting directly across from my aging eighth grade social studies teacher in a 12-person class. She wasn’t exactly holding my attention, and my drowsiness betrayed my boredom. Finally, annoyed, she asked me across the entire class if she was keeping me up. It was a trick question—was either answer good? I turned red and muttered a sheepish no. It’s a moment I haven’t heard...
Online bullying follows a gender pattern that's the opposite of what happens off-line, the Clemson study found. On playgrounds and in school hallways, boys are the primary perpetrators and victims; online, girls rule. Nearly a third of the eighth-grade girls surveyed reported being bullied online in the previous two months, compared with 10% of boys; 17% of the girls said they had bullied online, but only 10% of the boys said they had. Such stats get an eye roll from teens. "Girls make up stuff and sooooooo much drama," Taylor said (by IM, of course). "Drama queens...
...Beth Hammack, a Euless cheer sponsor, swears that most of the fights revolve around boys: "Junior-high kids are just hormones running around in tennis shoes, "she says with a knowing look. Then there's the perennial friction from freshman "fishes" lording it over the lowly eighth-graders. "My flyer and me got into it again today," says Breanna, whose job is to provide the base for the acrobatics of a freshman cheerleader. Monica, a team captain, tries to bring everyone together, but she complains that it never works because of the evil ninth-graders...