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...hellish environment and settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood--to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya, Brandon was named Most Improved Student; last month he returned to a highly regarded magnet school in Baltimore, where he just aced his first Latin test...
...chose a spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save the boys with strong discipline, "tons and tons" of adult attention and an accelerated academic program that will be a source of pride to them when they return to Baltimore...
...more American swimmers gave her attitude, she'd "push their cuticles back to their elbows." Just the day before, she had given Cathy Freeman acrylics, and now feared the extensions cost Freeman some time out of the starting blocks in the 200-m race, where she came in seventh. That's Olympic-level manicurist gossip...
...self-improvement. Lucid lullabies ("Airbag," "No Surprises"), Kafkaesque visions ("Paranoid Android"), obligatory condemnatory ballads ("Karma Police," "Lucky") and a pleasingly incongruous-yet-wicked-good rock song ("Electioneering") assembled a musical line-up so good that one instantly forgave the band for the tiresome poem "Fitter Happier" occupying the seventh track of the album. The unanimous acclaim OK Computer received and subsequent appearance on every music magazine's "Top 10 albums of the Year" lists (as well as on countless top-10-albums-of-all-time lists) left music-lovers and critics alike standing over Radiohead's ashes and wondering what...
...rushing into their teens earlier than ever, according to a new study released by the Girl Scouts Research Institute. Preteen girls in the 8-to-12 age group are increasingly worried about their popularity, weight and appearance. In third grade 75% are happy with their looks, but by the seventh grade only 56% are. By the time they are 10 or 12, nearly a quarter think 12 or 13 is the right age for a first romantic relationship. The report concludes that while they may be maturing physically, emotionally these kids are in many ways still kids...