Word: boyness
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...always evident that Venter would become such a transformative figure - particularly when he was a boy. He was never a terribly engaged student (his 2007 autobiography, A Life Decoded, includes his eighth-grade report card, filled with Cs and Ds). He fondly recalls testing the patience of both his parents and the pilots at San Francisco International Airport when he and his friends, pedaling furiously on their bicycles, would race planes taxiing for takeoff on a remote runway. (Airport officials eventually fenced it off.) In 1967 he went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital...
...summer of 1979, I was 14 years old. Thinking that I should be productively occupied over the school holidays, my father arranged for me to work as a copy boy at Hong Kong's English-language paper of record, the South China Morning Post. He did this through his sometime drinking companion - the paper's most famous and influential writer, Kevin Sinclair...
...though bright, left school at 16. After being arrested and brought to court for throwing rocks through a train-station window, he was interviewed by a juvenile counselor. Startled by the young vandal's command of Gorky, Conrad and Steinbeck, the counselor eventually referred Sinclair to a copy-boy position at Wellington's Evening Post. From there, his progress through the newspaper world of New Zealand and Australia was buccaneering: sleeping rough on Queensland's Gold Coast after turning up drunk and late for a job on the Courier-Mail; moving in, at the age of 19, with a thirtyish...
...Chloé, Missoni and Marni all sell miniature versions of their adult ready-to-wear pieces. Come summer, Alberta Ferretti, known for her flirty chiffon dresses, will launch Alberta Ferretti Girls through a licensing deal with Grant SpA, a manufacturer that also produces Moschino's children's line. Meanwhile, bad-boy British designer John Galliano has teamed up with Italian manufacturer Diesel to launch a pint-size collection next fall. Premium denim brands are rushing into this market too. High-end department stores like Barneys and specialty shops like Fred Segal sell $150 Antik Denim, 7 for All Mankind and Rock...
...hard at work promoting his new album, probably to raise money for the extensive therapy little Harlow is going to need after she watches a few episodes of The Simple Life. Nicole’s delivery was quickly overshadowed by news of Christina Aguilera’s new baby boy, Max Liron Bratman, born at the very same hospital a few hours after Harlow. And speaking of hospitals, Britney Spears ended up there after holding her son hostage when KFed’s people came to pick him up (read: rescue him) from Mom. She has recently been seen cavorting...