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...short hairstyle and nondescript outfits. But last winter, the situation escalated. Two girls in her class began to ridicule and bad-mouth her, saying she looked like a boy and calling her a nerd. They tripped her up, took her pens, and eventually resorted to hiding and damaging her backpack. "I guess it's because I don't wear fashionable clothes," says Hürter, who gained several kilos while the bullying was going on. "It got so bad I didn't want to go to school anymore. It really affected my self-confidence." It took...
...unusually loud tone of voice” while responding to questions about his identification. Asked to put down a pen he was holding, Strahan refused, at which point the HUPD officer removed the pen from his hand. According to the arrest report, Strahan began moving his hand toward his backpack, so the officer helped him to his feet and handcuffed...
...each week’s production night like a mountain lion leaping out of the woods to knock a bicycle rider to the ground. But not a lion that goes for the jugular—a lion that covers the rider’s mouth and tears open his backpack to look for granola bars...
...SPREAD THE WEIGHT A couple of smaller bags allow you to distribute the load more evenly than one big one. If you're wearing a backpack, don't sling it over just one shoulder. If you really must carry a duffel bag, switch shoulders early and often...
...think it’s absurd,” she said. “In a day and age where you can’t leave a backpack in a public place like a post office or subway station, when all those places are questionable in the eyes of the law, why is a children’s playground not a questionable place to abandon these things...