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What is she talking about to her friends? Social power: who's 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...
While most Americans past eighth grade seem to consider cell phones as vital as air, kids under 13 have remained largely unfettered. That may be changing. The Walt Disney Internet Group announced in early July that it is teaming up with Sprint to develop a line of mobile phones, due out next year, aimed squarely at preteen children. Meanwhile, the market is already filling up. In March, Firefly Mobile debuted a model designed for the lunch-box set. Later this summer, a company called Wherify will debut its Wherifone, and in September, Enfora will introduce its version, the TicTalk...
Most early impressions of Roberts cast him as a nobler character: big brain, big heart. He was the kind of boy whose eighth-grade math teacher kept his birthday in her birthday book all these years, alone among her generations of students. "I like to think that was an omen for wonderful things to come," says Dorothea Liddell. He was way clever, she recalls, so much so that if he didn't get a concept she knew she had to teach it again, but "he never flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science...
Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, a summer school proctor, said that his laptop computer, several computer accessories, jewerly, and a credit card were all stolen from his room on the eighth floor of F Tower when he was moved in last Wednesday, June...
...last July, Leonard was pitching batting practice. He started over in the minor leagues with the Fort Myers Royals (A) and gingerly pitched his way to the Memphis Chicks (AA). In September, 28 months after his collapse, Leonard returned to Kansas City to pitch the eighth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Milwaukee. He allowed one hit. "This spring," Howser says, "I told him, 'You're going to have to be a good pitcher to make our staff.' He told me, 'I don't want to be an average pitcher anyway. I don't want to just...