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...even more important function. According to Juanita Gibson, a teacher at Cleveland Avenue, when children are used to playing together, they figure out a way to handle differences. But now, when kids get into a fight, instead of resolving it on their own, they are liable to seek adult intervention...
...Dancing Baby, first created by Unreal Pictures Inc., was released in August 1996 as a prototype to demonstrate the capabilities of the new character animation system for 3D Studio MAX. Originally, the creators made an adult skeleton dance. Next, they had an alien dance. None of these characters made an impact. But one fateful day, the designers superimposed an image of a large plastic baby doll over the dancing adult skeleton. A star was born. Shortly thereafter, company employees began sending the animation file through email, and soon it became an Internet favorite, accompanied by music ranging from B.J. Thomas...
...abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges of Luke's fame, hoping forlornly for a smile from...
Reagan's achievements were adult achievements, but when I think of him now I think of the reaction he got from the young. It was as if some mutual sweetness were sensed on both sides...
...many states, though, age is no barrier to punishment. Twenty-seven do not have age restrictions in prosecuting juveniles as adults (see chart). On Friday the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a department of corrections decision to house Donna Ratliff in an adult prison. At 14 she burned down her parents' house as retribution for alleged sexual abuse by "family members since the age of four." In 1996 a judge had recommended that Donna be sent to a juvenile facility...