Word: boing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since a 1978-82 stint in TIME's Washington bureau; among other duties, he covered the Drug Enforcement Administration. He first contributed to a major TIME story on drugs in 1981, when we examined cocaine. This week he takes a look at the empire of Los Angeles superdealer Bo Bennett. Beaty covered Bennett's trial, but also spent months talking to drug traffickers. "At one point," he says, "I actually presided over a conference, with people at all levels of the business explaining to me how it works." Gaining their confidence was not easy. Beaty, who once went through...
...when Caesars Palace sent a luxurious Learjet to fly Brian ("Bo") Bennett to Las Vegas, he must have marveled at how his lot in life had changed. Only three years earlier the youth from the downtrodden ghetto of South Central Los Angeles was stocking shelves in a supermarket. Now, at 23, he was off on the kind of fling casinos reserve for the highest rollers...
Ironically, Bo had seemed an unlikely prospect for a criminal career. While his two brothers, Tony and Darron, ran with tough gangs and had arrest records, he avoided violence. Overweight and suffering from asthma, Bo was a well-liked teenager who took school seriously. He jumped at the chance to ride buses to a predominantly white high school in Sepulveda. He was given a room by a white family so he would be close to his new school and able to take the grocery job nearby. Unlike most of his friends, he managed to graduate from high school...
Public school makes no sense to Bo Yoder, a strapping young native of Portland, Me. "You get interested in something, and then the bell rings, and you have to go somewhere else," he says. "It sounds horrible...
...then he wouldn't know. Aside from a brief stint in preschool, Bo, 15, ) has never been in a classroom. While his peers puzzle through the mysteries of a new high school year, he sits at home, quietly exploring the arcana of radio waves. He is a ham-radio fanatic, can take down Morse code at 13 words per minute and is aiming to get his fourth-level ham license. He has taught himself how to use a wood lathe and is rereading Mark Twain. Bo plans to go to college. He will master the artificiality of entrance exams when...