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...doesn't push it where he lives, though: at home Spree's cornrows are fuzzy, not as tight and glossy as they are on game nights. "The bad-boy thing doesn't bother me," he says. "People are going to think what they're going to think. The first impression of me is the incident with P.J. I understand why I have the image. I'm not trying to downplay the incident. It wasn't right. We make mistakes, and we've got to move...
...child. I used to sit in the corner and take my shoes on and off for hours at a time and make action figures out of toilet paper. They tried to buy me GI Joes, but I was like, "No, no, two-ply will be fine." They didn't bother with babysitters, they just gave me a couple of pots, some Puffs paper and a couple pairs of shoes. I didn't read till I was six. I wore velcro until I was 14 because I couldn't tie my shoes. I learned to tie a tie this summer...
Instinct," in its human applications, can be a fighting word. Prefaced with "maternal," it's often deployed as a warm-up for the old "barefoot and pregnant" prescription for feminine fulfillment. In fact, if motherhood is a mindlessly instinct-driven occupation, why bother with feet at all? In their zeal to reduce women to reproductive devices, the ancient Chinese eliminated the female foot, at least as a means of locomotion. More recently, in 1981, a male biologist implied in the esteemed journal Science that human females evolved to stand upright long after males did because what did females have...
...planning a dinner party, don't bother inviting them (they're excruciatingly dull). But if you're thinking about building a new car and want to make it as safe as possible for drivers and passengers of all sizes, these are the folks to turn to. America, meet the crash test dummy family: Mom, Dad and three kids. According to an announcement Friday from the U.S. Transportation Department, this nuclear gang will begin replacing traditional one-size-fits-all dummies in automobile crash tests immediately, thereby enhancing the efficacy of air bags and other safety devices...
When her brother told her pre-frosh weekend was a waste of time, Valeria Escobari '00 decided not to bother. As a result, she says she never had the chance to meet and mingle before classes began...