Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Columbine, which has won 32 statewide sports championships in this decade, athletes and cheerleaders don't bother hiding that they are the elite. "It's the greatest school with the greatest kids," says golden-boy track and football star Scott Schulte. "We are perfect, and the atmosphere is perfect." Those who are imperfect tend to disagree. Columbine athletes, many of the non-athletes say, receive favorable treatment from school officials and often harass those on whom they look down. A number of Columbine students, who don't want to be named because they fear reprisals, described athletes routinely shoving, cursing...
...perfectly reasonable response. Find your own comfort level, and enforce it. Use your eyes and your gut. If you sense something's agitating your kids, intervene. Michael Thompson, a Boston-based clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents, asks parents, "Is the violence that a boy is enacting on Nintendo translating into his daily life? Is he more aggressive when he's playing, or meaner to his brother, or less respectful of his parents? Then you have to put limits on him. But if it isn't affecting his behavior, if it stays in the realm of fantasy, that...
Enrique Martin Morales was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1971. In 1984, at 12, he joined the ever changing ranks of the boy group Menudo. "Two things can happen when you join a group like Menudo," says Robi Rosa, a fellow Menudo alum, who co-wrote Martin's current hit single, Livin' la Vida Loca. "You can get all messed up, or you can pay attention and learn from it. We learned a lot. For Ricky and me, the studio is like home...
Sporting a three-quarter-length parka, the 14-year-old boy sauntered toward the doors of W.R. Myers High School in Taber, a small town in the Canadian province of Alberta. Someone smirked, "Do you have a gun under there?" He did. Moments later, the ninth-grade dropout whipped out a .22-cal. rifle, killing a 17-year-old boy and critically wounding another...
...conspiracy charges nevertheless. Schools in Hillsborough, N.J., were shut down for a day when students received e-mail warnings, "If you think what happened in Colorado was bad, wait until you see what happens in Hillsborough Middle School on Friday." In Bakersfield, Calif., authorities yanked a 13-year-old boy out of school after his classmates spotted him loading a .40-cal. handgun. He had a hit list of 30 names with "they deserved to die" scrawled at the bottom. The epidemic has put school administrators in a tough position. "Now everyone has to be serious about everything," says Paul...