Word: boys
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...Kristoffer Tabori), an irritatingly stubborn but gifted scholar whose chief loyalty is to his own tastes and standards. His intensity of principle establishes him as a hero, although not, in Tabori's rendering, a very likable one. The most interesting performances come from Michael Countryman as a diffident rich boy who spends years under the hero's sway and Peter Friedman as an austere Scot who spends years resisting it. Countryman portrays the sort of unflashy youth who hangs around his brighter classmates but inevitably is relegated to the business chores -- for which he demonstrates an acumen far better suited...
...mystery, the first safe vaccine against a viral disease was developed in the 18th century by Edward Jenner, a doctor in rural England. Jenner noticed that farmhands who contracted cowpox, a mild disease related to smallpox, did not develop the more deadly disease. In 1798 he inoculated a boy with material from a milkmaid's cowpox sore, then demonstrated that the lad had developed immunity to smallpox...
...lower-paid computer operators. That disparity in salary and job skills reflects a well-documented fact: American women, from girlhood on, are less likely than males to be intrigued by computers. In a survey of high school computer- programming classes in Michigan, California and Maryland, for example, boys outnumbered girls 2 to 1. A nationwide sampling of computer summer camps found a boy-girl ratio of 3 to 1. A Johns Hopkins study released in August reported that at the typical middle school, only 15% of the after-school computer users were female...
Some teachers admit that they have openly discouraged girls, arguing as one Midwestern superintendent did that scarce computing resources ought to be given to the boys because they "need to know about computers for their future careers in engineering." Usually the cues are more subtle. Jo Sanders, co- author of The Neuter Computer, notes that teachers will often make eye contact with a boy when they start talking about computers, as if they assume the subject is intrinsically interesting only to males...
...with powerful knotty arms, his pants held up by braces, who was a woods foreman for the Brown Paper Co. Another bull of the woods, Albert Gadwah, 79, showed up wearing a brand- new red shirt, size extra large. "I never had a bit of a problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories of Camp Stark. But he had come carrying a sack full of old photos, looking for a friend. He found him too: Clauss, who had translated for the local priest when White had been an altar...