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Seven-year-olds for the most part have little or no understanding of other higher-order concepts necessary to turn right and wrong into Right and Wrong--most significantly, death and remorse. "They know people die, but they don't know what it means," says Carl Bell, a University of Illinois psychiatry professor who has worked with troubled urban kids for two decades. "I've talked to seven-year-old kids who think when you're dead, you're just hanging out somewhere." And Paul Mones, a Portland, Ore., lawyer and a leading expert on young murderers, says, "Kids...
...Bell reasons that what those boys are alleged to have done may not necessarily be so abnormal. "This could have been some real innocent stuff. Kids throw rocks all the time. But the other issue is these kids could have been in a youthful predatory mode; kids who have been preyed upon before, victimized before, sometimes act that behavior out," he says. Of their apparent sexual assault on Harris, he says, "Kids at the age of seven and eight are forever doing little kinky, polymorphously perverse things--voyeurism, exhibitionism, cross dressing, anal and oral experimentation...
...yeah, the Maytag I didn't buy on Wednesday? At the closing bell the company announced a massive stock buyback. I bought it the next day at $1 a share more than I would have paid if I'd listened to my wife...
...elegant curtain of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House rose to reveal a seedy-looking bar. A drummer rapped out four crisp rim shots, and three dancers in bell-bottom trousers charged onstage. One of them was a 25-year-old whiz kid from Weehawken, N.J., starring in the premiere of his first ballet, a breezy tale of girl-crazy sailors on shore leave that he called Fancy Free. At a time when most Americans thought ballet meant women in tutus pretending to be birds, Fancy Free looked more like Fred Astaire than Swan Lake, and the music...
...Bill Cheswick, a security expert at Bell Labs, argues that simple carelessness caused the glitch: "It's an old rookie mistake--something you get in freshman programming." The bug enables an evil-minded e-mailer to send an attachment whose file name can be an executable program thousands of lines long. Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their...