Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ismail Cimen is the most famous boy in the world just now. The five-year-old sits in his hospital bed in Istanbul, watching the procession of toy-bearing journalists from all over the world who have come to hear his tale. He is the last living soul to be plucked from the destruction of the Aug. 17 earthquake, a boy buried so long that his uncle had prepared a grave for him. Says his sister Aysa, 18: "He was born on June 12, but his real birthday is the day they pulled...
...hallucinatory in the early days of his recovery. His mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...
...proponent of barebacking, argues that the risk of becoming HIV positive is outweighed by the rush of latex-free passion--especially in an era when, in his view, protease inhibitors are on the verge of turning AIDS from a fatal disease into a chronic illness. "It's the bad boy in me getting off," he admits. "One thing that barebacking allows is a certain amount of control over the risk. In sex, we have the ability to face the risk and look...
Then, in his second stage, he couldn't. Even while he was making serious hay as Nike's and Canon's poster boy--"Image Is Everything"--he was hangin' with Barbra Streisand (!), asking Las Vegas to name streets after him, scarfing doughnuts and sagging on court like a sprung net. He dropped to No. 25 in the world and looked to be one kaput wunderkind...
...pushing his good-neighbor policy beyond the gates of the Country Club. He has provided scholarships to Baton Rouge students (and $25,000 to the local Boy Scouts), given equipment to schools and handed out Thanksgiving turkeys and winter coats. He has also given talks on the importance of staying in school and avoiding drugs and violence...