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...intelligence revealed itself at St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he was singled out in the second grade as the outstanding boy student and did well enough in the third and fifth grades to be twice skipped ahead by half-grades. By the time he reached junior high school, he was the youngest, smallest boy in the class. He felt lost, unsure of himself. With no one to turn to, he made loneliness, insecurity and a stoic acceptance of life's defeats his earliest personal themes. At the same time, he possessed a strong independent streak and grew...
...Melancholy would dog him all his life, as would feelings of worthlessness, panic, high anxiety and frustration. It wouldn't matter that he married twice, raised five children, and became the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, attaining success on a scale no individual comic strip artist had ever known. Success fell off him. He was unable to take refuge in its rewards. With his first wife and five children, he moved in 1958 to a paradise among the redwoods of Northern California, where he briefly found happiness during a decade in which the work...
...thought, yes, there is. It has happened to me once or twice. Love at first sight sets you on fire. Friendship at first sight kindles a steadier and, well, friendlier heat...
Obviously, Cossack didn't get the memo--responsible doesn't sell. After election night, when the networks botched the call of Florida twice, this was their last, best chance to get it right. So they applied what they learned from November. Namely, nothing. Again, they chose being fast over necessarily being right. And this time they didn't even have the excuse of bad data. The answer was in their chilly little hands; they just decided not to digest it before reporting. In general, they pulled off a remarkable feat of deadline analysis. Thing is, that used to be what...
...surveyed had had heterosexual intercourse, a full two-thirds of respondents had engaged in other "non-coital" behaviors, like oral or anal sex - often without an understanding of the accompanying health risks. Considerable ethnic disparities emerged from the in-person surveys as well; white and Hispanic boys were about twice as likely as black boys to have performed oral sex on a girl, while black and Hispanic boys were twice as likely as their white counterparts to have engaged in anal sex with a girl. Both behaviors carry substantial transmission risks, experts emphasize, of diseases ranging from genital herpes...