Word: adults
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...Tony, in moments of crisis, has an anxiety attack or orders someone's death. In Spider-Man 3, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the young-adult nerd with preternatural powers, gets covered in intergalactic black stickum. Once he's gooed, he's bad - bad for him, anyway, which is still better than most of us on our best behavior. He spends much of the movie trying to resist the temptation of outlawry, the nefarious fashion of basic black...
...villain who enjoys the job: Eddie Brock (Topher Grace), a.k.a. Venom. "I like being bad," he exults. "It makes me happy." The third of Peter's rivals, Eddie-Venom is the reckless spirit of what teens would do if they dared, if there were no consequences, no censorious adult monitoring them. His tone of impish hell-raising seems out of place amid all the agonizing analysands - Peter-Spider, Flint-Sandman and Harry-Goblin - seeking to purge their inner demons, receive absolution for their sins. In this very serious movie, only Grace and Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, in a nice cameo...
...dead-end students toward a diploma. Transfer schools--small, personalized high schools specially designed for kids who have fallen seriously behind--had a 56% graduation rate, compared with 19% for such high-risk kids at ordinary high schools, and some transfer schools were graduating nearly 70%. Another program, Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs), which operates in the late afternoon and evening for students 17 or older, was enabling about 40% of these last-chance students to graduate...
...faces away in disgust, the TF explained to me that this was not therapy, and that I had to leave Sever 102 immediately. As I walked through the Yard, I looked forward to an afternoon of warming myself by the giant mushroom outside Canaday and then stalking the young adult section at Gutman Library. No sooner had I fallen asleep in the warm currents under the mushroom thanYard Ops came by and covered me in green mulch shot from a fire hose. After that, Gutman refused me admittance due to my history of crying into the books and ruining...
...Just two weeks before the Senate passed its version of Jessica's Law, two men freed on DNA testing after serving 27 years in prison between them for adult sexual assault visited the state capitol. The lone senator to vote against the bill reminded his colleagues of their visit. "At some point we have to decide where do we draw the line on something that's politically right but morally wrong," State Senator Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat, said as he cast his vote. "I'm for the death penalty, but I think it would be nice...